[ UK /ɐbsˈɒlv/ ]
[ US /æbˈzɑɫv, əbˈzɑɫv/ ]
VERB
  1. let off the hook
    I absolve you from this responsibility
  2. grant remission of a sin to
    The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Marys
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How To Use absolve In A Sentence

  • SOCRATES: And is not Apollo the purifier, and the washer, and the absolver from all impurities? Cratylus
  • To erode that bedrock is to subscribe, to a “divine right of kings” theory of governance, in which those who govern are absolved from adhering to the basic moral standards to which the governed are accountable. Bush Slanders Freedom « Antiwar.com Blog
  • According to the way of thinking promoted by Horowitz and the Students for Academic Freedom, however, my forbearing critique would hardly have been enough to absolve the stain of the readings.
  • Now seeing in the last section, those we call mathematics are absolved of the crime of breeding controversy; and they that pretend not to learning cannot be accused; the fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass everywhere for truth, without any evident demonstration either from experience, or from places of Scripture of uncontroverted interpretation. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
  • Once this message comes out, immediateness causes netizen heat to discuss, the netizen suspects these two employee became Baidu to be personal absolve " scapegoat " .
  • If he did, a public penance would be imposed and his sin would be absolved.
  • For Jason is proving, albeit from his grave, that death does not absolve bias.
  • This process employs potassium carbonate as an absolvent and can be uniquely integrated with the power plant steam cycle by using the waste steam or low-quality steam from the power plant. U.S. Department of Energy - Press Releases
  • He has been now absolved of all guilt, and his forgeries recognised as poetical Dada boutades.
  • You can get your sins absolved while eating a burger.
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