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- adjective Not
shrived .
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Examples
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“But we were thrown before its beauty unprepared, unshrived, unshorn.”
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Sprung from the carnival dances, where the masked Death forcing the terrified maidens to his embrace led them to the cemeteries to celebrate the memory of the dead, the priest countenanced these masks as religious rites and taught the superstitious people that their gifts would ease the souls of those sent suddenly unshrived to hell.
The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven
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Inna, in Stowe, etc. [c] That is, unshrived of their sins (?), a Christian intrusion
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St. Thomas in the East, with their unshrived dead, is a safer place for
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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You picture him, hot and red-handed from murder, soothing his battered conscience with some devilish Requiem for the unshrived soul he had just parted from its broken body, and leaving upon the harmonium the ineradicable traces of his guilt.
A Book of Scoundrels 1896
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You picture him, hot and red-handed from murder, soothing his battered conscience with some devilish Requiem for the unshrived soul he had just parted from its broken body, and leaving upon the harmonium the ineradicable traces of his guilt.
A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894
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"If a preacher chooses to be savage; to write from dyspeptic or neuralgic states; to send his congregation, unshrived, to the nether regions -- why, I shrug my shoulders and let it pass.
All's for the Best 1847
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