driv´en|ness

driv´en|ness
driv|en «DRIHV uhn», verb, adjective. a)
past participle of drive: »

The milkman has just driven past our house.

–adj.
1. urged onward; impelled: »

The creative individual is a driven man. He has an inner compulsion to bring something new into the world (Atlantic).

2. carried along and gathered into heaps by the wind; drifted: »

driven snow.

driv´en|ness, noun.

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