Shriven

"shriven" or absolved from their sins, so they were able to start Lent feeling clean of spirit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Based upon the total recompensation package received by all Workers, including those who were not Outsourced, Downsized, or Pension-shriven. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And some may think they can later repent and be shriven, and God will forgive them. ❋ Elizabeth Massie (2010)

'I'm confessed and shriven of all manner of follies,' said Elis sturdily, 'that among them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We watched Lev Grossman whose novel, The Magicians, came out today--go buy it--and who wrote a very funny blog entry about WorldCon get shriven by Larry Niven. ❋ Megan Kurashige (2009)

“Hath she not been shriven by Father Philip?” said the monk. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It seemed as if my fathers total loss of control the night before had shriven his soul because without moving his eyes from the road ahead he began to make the humblest apology I have ever been offered. ❋ Richard Madeley (2008)

On Shrove Tuesday morning the church bell would ring to call parishioners to church to be shriven. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I had my foot upon the spot, where, at the same dread hour, the shriven prisoner was strangled; and struck my hand upon the guilty door — low-browed and stealthy — through which the lumpish sack was carried out into a boat, and rowed away, and drowned where it was death to cast a net. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A rumour got about, among the crowd, that the criminal would not confess; in which case, the priests would keep him until the Ave Maria (sunset); for it is their merciful custom never finally to turn the crucifix away from a man at that pass, as one refusing to be shriven, and consequently a sinner abandoned of the Saviour, until then. ❋ Unknown (2007)

(Note - just the same way that only Catholic officers who have been shriven and received the Sacraments are used on raids against suspected Irish republican terrorists - LT) ❋ Laban (2005)

Only how to be shriven of Tiberius Claudius Nero when she was determined to be a good wife? ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)