shriven

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

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

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

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

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