shriven

• You will be ready by then Washed, shaved, shriven, and with a rose in my coat. —  Spotted Hemlock - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 31: 1958
• Lastly, he went to church, and was shriven--namely, confessed his sins, and was absolved by the priest. —  All's Well Alice's Victory
• I must go where I can hear of a better way Nay," said Stephen, "what better way can there be than to be shriven-- clean shriven--and then houselled, as I was ere Lent, and trust to be again on next Low Sunday morn? —  The Armourer's Prentices
• And we thought of the passing of the spike, shriven, and with food for his journey And what are we to believe about the Mass?" —  Tell England A Study in a Generation
• To be shriven, or shrove_, means to obtain absolution from one's sin Footnote 6: It was practised as late as the end of the last century Footnote 7: So called from the Gospel of the day, which treats of the feeding of the five thousand.--_Cf_. —  Old English Sports

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