shriven
Americanverb
Other Word Forms
- unshriven adjective
Example Sentences
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Then I grab the lever, record myself with a manly fling, and walk out, shriven, to go to work.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 5, 2018
I mean the midlife crisis story, in which a man suddenly finds himself shriven of the beliefs that have hitherto defined him.
From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2017
But 30,000ft above the Atlantic, he is seized by the need to be shriven, and makes his confession to a cassette recorder he addresses as "Father Sony".
From The Guardian • Feb. 21, 2011
She died, still pregnant, but properly shriven, and within a minute Dr. Corbit had her abdomen open and a 34-lb. girl in an incubator.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he galloped away, Hamlet cried after him, “Make haste in your errand, for remember, I will be shriven today.”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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