Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Split; rent or burst asunder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. & a. from
rive .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Past participle of
rive - adjective
torn apart - adjective
broken intopieces ;split asunder
Etymologies
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Examples
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He also assumed that the England dressing room was by definition riven with cliques, self-interest and hostility to newcomers.
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As CEO, Ford was a proponent of fuel-saving and hybrid car technology but struggled to implement that vision or to reform a corporate culture that insiders long described as riven by factions.
IOL: News 2010
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The licht o 'the can'le had burned up against it, an' riven't a 'to pieces.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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In the days of the 'last minstrel' it was appropriate to describe this 'riven' relic as 'Newark's stately tower.' line 33.
Marmion Walter Scott 1801
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Will - like PeterS, I must query your odd grammar: "With a deeply rived country" presumably you meant "riven".
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UK airports yesterday, telling a hearing that the Commission's ruling was "riven" with apparent bias.
WN.com - Articles related to Second runway ahead as City Airport's owner buys Gatwick for £1.5bn 2009
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Nearly half 46 percent even said they strongly agreed that America is riven by religion.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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This chapter includes evidence that, on its own, may suggest that Americans are riven by religion.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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At least in this sense most American communities are not riven by culture wars about the private religiosity of public school teachers.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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The idea that standards of politeness are declining in a country riven by antisocial behaviour and rudeness is wrong, according to research to be published by the Young Foundation.
Rude Britannia is a myth, says report into English manners 2011
super-topher commented on the word riven
1 a: to wrench open or tear apart or to pieces : rend b: to split with force or violence
2 a: to divide into pieces : shatter b: fracture
intransitive verb: to become split : crack
January 15, 2009
martagreen commented on the word riven
"I realized that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder." -Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
March 6, 2009
gever commented on the word riven
Over on Medieval Occupations they list appear to have found some evidence of a rivener (which is not defined here either). Anyone come across that as an olde occupation?
February 7, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word riven
I've seen renter, which is interesting.
February 7, 2012