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absolve
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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
  • I shouted back, "and I have absolved him of his sins!"  (source)
    absolved = relieved or forgiven
  • 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.
  • He said this as if I was to absolve him of the necessity of doing so, with a smile or a joke.†  (source)
  • Yes, he agreed, but it hadn't absolved me from my sin.  (source)
    absolved = forgiven or made blameless
  • 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)
  • Perhaps his loss of memory was a protection from the past, absolving him of whatever had happened.†  (source)
  • —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.
  • Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd,  (source)
    absolver = one who forgives
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • Absolution for screwing up and building the city here?†  (source)
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