shriven

American  

[shriv-uhn] / ˈʃrɪv ən /

verb

1. a past participle of shrive.

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Other Word Forms

• unshriven adjective

Example Sentences

Is it getting ready for our return to a shriven world, sadder, smaller but somehow more pure than before?

From Washington Post

The military has been shriven by spending cuts and is still not recovered from the humiliations suffered in Afghanistan and Iraq.

From The Guardian

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

In his telling he was offering a new republic, shriven of racial hatreds and purged of poverty, built by farsighted technocrats and legislators upon mountains of federal cash.

From Economist

One by one that night we knelt at the feet of the good shepherd, who, like his Lord, was ready to lay down his life for his sheep, and were shriven.

From Project Gutenberg