shriven
Americanverb
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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
Christendom's faithful, nearly as apprehensive, crowded French churches in record numbers to be shriven.
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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