- Shriver
Shriver is an English
surname .The surname may derive from the 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 orpenitent ). [Citation | year = 2000 | title =The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | edition = 4 | publication-place = Boston | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Company | page = 1614 | isbn = 978-0-395-82517-4 , headword shrive.]However, the basic meaning of the Indo-European root that is the linguistic ancestor of "shrive" is the idea of writing, and it lives on in many other modern words, including English "scribe" and "scrivener" and German "schreiben" [to write] . Therefore, the surname "Shriver" may possibly have come from another occupation connected in some way with writing, such as clerk or secretary, and it could have arisen on the continent in an earlier form of spelling and pronunciation and been naturalised into English.
A number of notable people have the surname "Shriver:"
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Anthony Shriver
*Eunice Kennedy Shriver
*Lionel Shriver
*Loren Shriver
*Maria Shriver , American newscaster and wife ofArnold Schwarzenegger
*Mark Shriver
*Pam Shriver
*Robert Sargent Shriver III
*Sargent Shriver , American politician
*Timothy Shriver References
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