Sample Sentences forabsolve (auto-selected)
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Saying kaddish and sitting shiva, that absolves them of any responsibility for you. (source)absolves = relieves
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Then he tells me kneel, gives me absolution, tells me say three Hail Marys, three Our Fathers, three Glory Bes. (source)absolution = forgiveness for sins
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. (source)absolved = found blameless
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...that one thing, which could absolve them of any but the grossest defect, was an interest in cattle. (source)absolve = forgive
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I shouted back, "and I have absolved him of his sins!" (source)absolved = relieved or forgiven
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All this he did as fully as he could, and prayed for absolution. (source)absolution = forgiveness
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Related words: absolution, acquittal, mercy.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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He said this as if I was to absolve him of the necessity of doing so, with a smile or a joke.† (source)
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Yes, he agreed, but it hadn't absolved me from my sin. (source)absolved = forgiven or made blameless
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The president leans back in his chair and softly taps a pencil against his teeth as Undersecretary of State Chester Bowles reads a lengthy statement that absolves the State Department from any blame concerning the Bay of Pigs.† (source)
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Perhaps his loss of memory was a protection from the past, absolving him of whatever had happened.† (source)
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—but it were peril to my own soul to let him die unconfessed and unabsolved.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unabsovled means not and reverses the meanings of absolved. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd, (source)absolver = one who forgives
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Also, when he may lawfully performe, and doth not, it is not the Invalidity of the Covenant, that absolveth him, but the Sentence of the Soveraign.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She absolveth" in older English, today we say "She absolves."
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Bishop O'Neill sang solemn high mass and the cardinal gave the final absolutions.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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Absolution for screwing up and building the city here?† (source)
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