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bliven

bliven is the past participle of blive.

Meaning of blive

Adverb

blive (comparative more blive, superlative most blive)

  1. (obsolete) quickly; forthwith
    • “Perdy, ſir knight,” ſaide then th’ enchaunter blive […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18, page 223

Proper noun capitalized: Bliven

Bliven (plural Blivens)

  1. A surname.

Forms of bliven

pluralBlivens

Questions about bliven

What does bliven mean?
Bliven means a surname.
What is bliven the past participle of?
Bliven is the past participle of blive.
What part of speech is bliven?
Bliven is a proper noun.

Words near bliven in the dictionary

  1. blitzscaled
  2. blitzscales
  3. blitzscaling
  4. blitzweed
  5. blive
  6. bliven
  7. Blivens
  8. blives
  9. blivet
  10. blivets
  11. bliving

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bliven (page history and authors); Bliven (page history and authors); blive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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