"shriven" or absolved from their sins, so they were able to start Lent feeling clean of spirit. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
As for that, said Sir Bors, I will be shriven with. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Were shriven, assoiled, and blessed; a mass have heard. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
And the benediction given ne'er shall leave my shriven soul. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
Now it's time to get some sleep, otherwise I'll feel suitably shriven!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-02-01] Reference
He was just newly confessed and shriven, as near content as ever I knew him. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
Once dead the shriven sailors were sewn into hammocks weighted with roundshot. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
And so then her ghostly father was brought to her, to be shriven of her misdeeds. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Not from illness, or she would have been in the churchyard, shriven and hallowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Potter's Field]
He is as good as shriven, and he will live and thrive, and do honour to our order. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin In The Ice]
He remanded the bridegroom to prison, had him shriven and executed all within an hour. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
Now it's time to get some sleep, otherwise I'll feel suitably shriven! posted by Niki at. From Wordnik.com. [Shrove Tuesday: Pancakes in a hurry] Reference
'I'm confessed and shriven of all manner of follies,' said Elis sturdily, 'that among them. From Wordnik.com. [A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old] Reference
How Sir Gawaine came to the abbey for to follow Galahad, and how he was shriven to a hermit. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
An hour later, shriven as white as a new lamb, he emerged into the slanting late-afternoon sun. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
How Sir Launcelot was shriven, and what sorrow he made and of the good ensamples which were shewed him. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Then was Sir Gawaine shriven, and in a little while he swooned, while all stood uncovered round about him. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
It was very simple … nothing unseemly … He was just newly confessed and shriven, as near content as ever I knew him. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
And of everych of these sins it behoveth them to be shriven of their priests, and to pay great sum of silver for their penance. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
The name of Shrove Tuesday survives in our Calendar, to remind us of the time when we also used to go to be shriven before Easter. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
Come to Him and wait for them, clean, new-shriven. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917] Reference
I sit with my loins girt and my soul, I hope, shriven. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Revel] Reference
Again the voice asked: "Did it die shriven of its sins?". From Wordnik.com. [The Brethren] Reference
There are two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — First Series] Reference
Spectres of uncharitableness were disturbing her and she sought to be shriven. From Wordnik.com. [Stubble] Reference
Lastly, he told him of Masouda, but of her Egbert, who had shriven her, knew already. From Wordnik.com. [The Brethren] Reference
"Sir," saith the squire, "Draw not forth the knife of my body until that I be shriven.". From Wordnik.com. [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference
It is hard for Americans to imagine that a land so consecrated could be shriven of that blessing. From Wordnik.com. [Spero News] Reference
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