shriven

[ shriv-uhn ]

verb

1. a past participle of shrive.

Other Words From

• un·shriven adjective

Example Sentences

“For the blow Shriver’s given / May she never be shriven!”

From New York Times

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

From Washington Post

Then I grab the lever, record myself with a manly fling, and walk out, shriven, to go to work.

From The New Yorker

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

From The Guardian

As he galloped away, Hamlet cried after him, “Make haste in your errand, for remember, I will be shriven today.”

From Literature