Shriver
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Shriver is an English surname that derives from the obsolescent common noun shriver, "a person who shrives". The English verb to shrive is an obsolete word referring to the act of confession (transitive or intransitive, confessor or penitent).[1]
A number of notable people have the surname Shriver:
- Anthony Shriver
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- Lionel Shriver
- Loren Shriver
- Maria Shriver, American newscaster and wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Mark Shriver
- Pam Shriver
- Robert Sargent Shriver III
- Sargent Shriver, American politician
- Timothy Shriver
[edit] References
- ^ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4 ed.), Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000, p. 1614, ISBN 978-0-395-82517-4, headword shrive.
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