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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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Saying kaddish and sitting shiva, that absolves them of any responsibility for you. (source)absolves = relieves
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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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I saw his hand moving across his face as he absolved me. (source)absolved = forgave (his sins)
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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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All this he did as fully as he could, and prayed for absolution. (source)absolution = forgivenessstandard 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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I know it doesn't absolve anyone of anything, but the Kabul we lived in in those days was a strange world, one in which some things mattered more than the truth.† (source)absolve = find blameless; or forgive
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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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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)absolves = finds blameless; or forgives
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And he knew that she was really saying she didn't love him, that she didn't want to be with him, but by putting it on his shoulders she was absolving herself of any guilt in her admission.† (source)absolving = finding blameless; or forgiving
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—but it were peril to my own soul to let him die unconfessed and unabsolved.† (source)unabsolved = not found blameless; or not forgivenstandard 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)absolveth = finds blameless; or forgivesstandard 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)absolutions = to forgive someone for multiple wrongs OR words by which a clergyman pronounces people forgiven by the churchstandard 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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Related words: absolution, acquittal, mercy.† (source)absolution = to find someone blameless; or to forgive OR the words by which a clergyman pronounces someone forgiven by the church
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