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View synonyms for shriven
shriven
[shriv-uhn]
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- unshriven adjective
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Is it getting ready for our return to a shriven world, sadder, smaller but somehow more pure than before?
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Then I grab the lever, record myself with a manly fling, and walk out, shriven, to go to work.
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The military has been shriven by spending cuts and is still not recovered from the humiliations suffered in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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As he galloped away, Hamlet cried after him, “Make haste in your errand, for remember, I will be shriven today.”
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I mean the midlife crisis story, in which a man suddenly finds himself shriven of the beliefs that have hitherto defined him.
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