shriven
Example Sentences
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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
She died, still pregnant, but properly shriven, and within a minute Dr. Corbit had her abdomen open and a 34-lb. girl in an incubator.
From Time Magazine Archive
So we may well believe that the King’s men were shriven on the night before they fought Something of the young man’s vision had penetrated to his captains and his soldiers.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
