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He maintains face before the washroom attendant at the Greenbank Club, but his lunchroom tabs there are piling up like unshriven sins.

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Author West retorts dryly, he worked to send "unshriven men to their death."

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Relays of nuns prayed ceaselessly for his unshriven soul.

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The bishop, the seduction speech runs, is so conservative that he will end by bringing the Communists clamping down on the church, and then how about the souls unshriven, the infants unbaptized?

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The evil Caradog Was swallowed unshriven, sucked into his grave.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz