Definition of "thriven" [thriv•en]

• Past participle of thrive (verb)

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• "I hate to nitpick about this, but please, please, can people begin to say "thriven" and "throve"?"
• "They have thriven well and increased with great rapidity, so that now (1869) the whole town is full of them."
• "Such things as could be said for him were said, — how he had taken to industrious habits, and had thriven lawfully and reputably."