Both Uses
absolve
in
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
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- And perhaps at the other end of the world there is a place where the screaming can't be heard, and I may find it in my heart to grant God absolution!†
Chpt 4.absolution = to find someone blameless; or to forgive OR the words by which a clergyman pronounces someone forgiven by the church
- This...is the place where you might grant God absolution.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(absolve) to find someone blameless; or forgive; or relieve (of a requirement or obligation)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)