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SHRIVING
Definition of SHRIVING
verb
present participle and gerund of shrive
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
SHRIVING carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Shrift; the act of one who shrives, or (as a priest) hears confession.
noun
Shrift; confession.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shrive.
noun
The hearing of a confession of sins.
Where it comes from
From Middle English schryvynge; equivalent to shrive + -ing.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,287)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SHRIVE · 2 relatives in the game
SHRIVING in a sentence
“The tradition of making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday stretches back to about Tudor times, a good 500 years after the notion of "shriving" - or confessing to sins - became part of popular religious practice on the last day before the start of Lent.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, 2011
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHRIVING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 78 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 49, 8 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHRIVING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GHIINRSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of SHRIVING. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start SHRIVI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found SHRIVING?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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