shriven

And albeit first the said Count demanded with cries to be shriven; yet did they not grant him a friar or a priest to confess him.

He added in a lower tone, "you've purged me of my sin, my dear—I feel already shriven."

He would behave this way, Mr. Carvel, if he were being shriven by the Newgate ordinary before a last carting to Tyburn.

And of every one of these sins they must be shriven by their priests, and pay a great sum of silver for their penance.

Shriven he arose, to do what remained in the west before he could be crowned in Rouen, and crowned in Westminster.