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[ shey-puhn ] / ˈʃeɪ pən /
adjectivehaving a designated shape (usually used in combination): a sprawling, ill-shapen building. Origin of shapen1250–1300; Middle English; Old English -sceapen (only in compounds); originally past participle of shape Words nearby shapenshape, shaped, shaped charge, shapeless, shapely, shapen, shape note, shape-note singing, shaper, shapeshifter, shape-up Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for shapenThey were born in sin and shapen in iniquity, and in sin did their mothers conceive them. Flowers of Freethought|George W. Foote Thus has poor mortality been beaten and shapen on the anvils of compulsion and exigency. Feminism and Sex-Extinction|Arabella Kenealy Grimhild says, "So it is shapen that thou must have this king and none else." The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga)|Anonymous The trivial questions I want to put could hardly be shapen in a letter so as to govern an answer that would satisfy my need. George Eliot's Life, Vol. III (of 3)|George Eliot
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