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Example sentences for "unshriven"

Lexicographically close words:
unshipping; unshod; unshoe; unshorn; unshrinking; unshuttered; unsifted; unsightliness; unsightly; unsigned
  1. Let the bells in yonder monastery toll, For the night rack nestles dark round the body stiff and stark, And unshriven to its Maker flies the soul.

  2. Mother Church, that no priestly office may be performed within the city, that men and women may not approach the altars of the Faith, that they must die unshriven with their sins upon them, and so be damned through all eternity?

  3. Now, with that sacred symbol in your hand, make solemn oath to divulge no word of what you have learnt here tonight, or else resign yourself to an unshriven death.

  4. Thou hast whispered into her mother-soul that one of thy sons, however base and undeserving, should not be sent unshriven to the judgment-seat of the most Holy Christ, thy son.

  5. They declare that the souls of unshriven mariners lodge there, and that to hear their wailing cries strikes madness into the hearts of listeners.

  6. One recalled how he sat up three nights with little Gaston when he had the fever, another of the prayers he offered without payment for the soul of the poor Louis who died unshriven last autumn.

  7. In these days, Cavour came to an understanding with a friendly monk in order that when his last hour arrived, he should not, like Santa Rosa, go unshriven to his account.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unshriven" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.