MEANING
Not having received confession or absolution before death, especially in older Christian usage.
Use it for
A writer wants the old religious fear of someone dying without confession or absolution.Adds specific religious dread around death without confession or absolution; it is not a general synonym for guilty.
On the page
The priest feared the drowned sailor had died unshriven.
Word forms
- Base
- unshriven
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