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shrove en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • shrōv
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ʃɹəʊv/

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) To join in the festivities of Shrovetide.
  2. (form-of, past) simple past of shrive
    form of shrive
  3. (broadly, obsolete) To make merry.
    • Servant, your counsel's excellent good, And shall be follow'd, 'twill be rarely strange To see him stated thus, as though he went A shroving through the City 1626 February 13 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
shroves Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
shroved Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shroved Tense=Past lexicographic
shroving Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

Shrove Sunday · Shrove Tuesday · Shrove Monday · Shrovetide