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
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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.
Adam cried desperately, crossing his fingers behind his back in the childish belief that such a gesture would absolve him. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
Hereby the community or whole body of the faithful, even to the meanest member, are vested from Christ with full power and authority actually to discharge and execute all acts of order and jurisdiction without exception: e.g. To preach the word authoritatively, dispense the sacraments, ordain their officers, admonish offenders, excommunicate the obstinate and incorrigible, and absolve the penitent. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
Patriotism, hounded on by Prussian Terror, by Preternatural Suspicion, roars tumultuous round the Salle de Manege, all day; insults many leading Deputies, of the absolvent Right-side; nay chases them, collars them with loud menace: Deputy Vaublanc, and others of the like, are glad to take refuge in Guardhouses, and escape by the back window. The French Revolution
He said that those leaflets do not absolve Israel of its responsibility to respect international humanitarian law, which he refers to as allowing groups like the Red Cross, groups like Doctors Without Borders to get to these places. CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2006
And not even the all-embracing, everlasting, multitudinous seas could absolve this. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
If he did, a public penance would be imposed and his sin would be absolved.
When he was gone, she scolded me, and reproached me with what she called my coquetry and imprudence; I could not bear her injustice, and very rashly replied, that no one had a right to blame me when my own conscience absolved me. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
But she had to do something, she had to absolve this terrible feeling of guilt. LOADED QUESTIONS
A police investigation yesterday absolved the police of all blame in the incident.
The capacity of history to absolve political actors is a cynical and immoral doctrine.
The court absolved him of guilt in her death.
Zoë, as loving in her death as she was in her life, tried to absolve her family from guilt.
In the Roman Catholic Church, it is the sacrament that absolves the sins of an individual through confession.
The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Marys
In the Catholic tradition, absolution from sin is obtained through confession, in which the penitent confesses to a priest who then absolves the sin and administers penitence.
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.
Maybe it will absolve you from legal liability in an American court of law, but the moral responsibility remains because you are unsure if your users are lying about their ages.
To reject giving a child a jab in favour of chancing it with the disease is to absolve oneself of responsibility.
If I am mistaken, it is undesignedly, which is sufficient to absolve me of all criminal error; and if I am right, reason, which is common to us both, shall decide. Paras. 1-50
Thank God, I am absolved from my promise.
Next, absolve all the implementers, practitioners and related agencies, under the excuse of 'complying with orders without questioning,' and then start giving the 'drafters' of the memos an out by transferring the decision for action to the states .... Propeller Most Popular Stories
Thankfully, studentsresponded to this editorial, disputing its characterization of the Women's Center as histrionic and taking issue with the weasel words that seem to absolve the DKE brothers of culpability ( 'boisterous''provocateurs'). Leah Anthony Libresco: Yale Daily News Wrong to Condemn Outrage in Response to Sexism
Mr Niehaus said the ANC still supported the position of the students on Mr Justice Leon and that they had not "absolved" him of "passing death sentences for political offences". ANC Daily News Briefing
A police investigation yesterday absolved the police of all blame in the incident.
I absolve you from this responsibility
Recovering, he is absolved of his guilt by the understanding daughter.
He absolved me from further obligation.
Galileo would not absolve them from blame for resorting to power when reason went against them.
You cannot attack someone with so much obvious detestably for them then absolve yourself by saying “Oh, yeah, but I forgive them.” Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Kay Granger Feeling the Heat
The United States and other signers pledged never to ‘absolve’ a state of ‘any liability’ for the torture of POWs.
Believe me, I'm not trying to absolve the New York City folks -- Sheldon Silver and Giff Miller together seemed determined to eliminate every last job in the city. Government Overgrowth, II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Therefore, every being must at length be saved from misery, if not by redemptive atonement then by absolvent annihilation, and one absolute heaven finally absorb the dwindling hells. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
So much weight, in fact, that since arriving in Cape Town I have found myself acting as absolver. Periscope
So I hereby absolve myself of guilt should he ever read this.
He was absolved of all blame.
Many of our sins are absolved through priests in confessional boxes.
Thank God, I am absolved from my promise.
Apparently the whole idea of human priesthood was proved, once and for ever, to be baseless; human mediation, in every possible form, was vehemently controverted; men were referred back to God as the sole absolver. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
It comes from the Roman Catholic practice of confessing one's sins and being absolved of them, or ‘shriven’.
There, he says, the cost of calling you or attaching a note to the bottle was low, hence the supplier's failure to secure your consent absolves you of all obligation to pay.
At the same time, the right to free speech does not absolve us from our duty to behave responsibly.
The fiction of a tardy repentance absolved the fame and the soul of her deceased husband; the sentence of the Iconoclast patriarch was commuted from the loss of his eyes to a whipping of two hundred lashes: the bishops trembled, the monks shouted, and the festival of orthodoxy preserves the annual memory of the triumph of the images. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
No order of the commission, board, or Secretary or judgment of the court to enforce the same shall in anywise relieve or absolve any person from any liability under the antitrust laws.
Instead he sent a message of support paying tribute to those who took part in the dispute and added: ‘I was proud to be part of it and I know that history will absolve us.’
But the possibility that apathy may subvert anarchy does not absolve its inciters from responsibility.
She was absolved of blame in the matter.
You are so lucky to have a good friendlike Deb and she will come home and simply absolve you of any smacking goin on in smitten. Mango margaritas + blood orange martinis | smitten kitchen
When thou hast made a vow, do not seek to evade it, nor find excuses to get clear of the obligation of it; say not before the priest, who is called the angel or messenger of the Lord of hosts, that, upon second thoughts, thou hast changed thy mind, and desirest to be absolved from the obligation of thy vow; but stick to it, and do not seek a hole to creep out at. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Your sins are absolved, my son - no more apologies necessary.
Scholes was one of the few players Ferguson absolved of any blame for what he described as a "ridiculous" and "careless" second-half performance. Wayne Rooney must live with media yen for 'Gascoigne No2' – Ferguson
The court absolved him of guilt in her death.
The app also guides you through the format and prayers for confession so that you won't get all tongue tied and amnesic when sitting before a collared absolver. ABC News: Top Stories
Oppenheimer seems to have absolved himself for lack of special expertise in ethics.
Similar reservations will no doubt surface in the coming months, as countries endeavor to absolve their own aggressive actions from the court's jurisdiction.
The bear hug is a crude hold and easily broken by anyone not inhibited by a devotion to fair play, and when attacked without warning from behind, the Saint considered himself absolved from the code of gentlemanly conduct. Salvage for the Saint
We are very pro people telling the truth, confessing, and being absolved of their sins - to take a slightly United Future view of the world.
And not even the all-embracing, everlasting, multitudinous seas could absolve this. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
The eraser is our confessor, our absolver and our time machine. '' The Power Of Big Ideas
And not even the all-embracing, everlasting, multitudinous seas could absolve this. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
He is our absolver in chief. He forgives us for the sins we have commit ted and those we may yet commit.
The report absolved her from/of all blame for the accident.
Juliet tells Nurse to tell her mother that she is going to Friar Laurence's cell to confess her sins and be absolved.
It is only when Conrad's case is taken on by an understanding therapist who absolves him of his guilt that he can be cured.
The vicarship was absolved, and the areas outside of Transylvania were again united with the main church.
n. - unremitting care; unflagging or obsequious attention. assiduous, v. - pardon; absolve; acquit; release. assoilment, assumpsit Xml's Blinklist.com
He absolves us of responsibility for our fitness.
The priest absolved him of his sins.
You don't absolve yourself of murder by hiring a hit man.
However, it is wrong to portray the women as innocent pawns, absolved of the responsibility of having collaborated with the forces of racism.
The report absolved her from/of all blame for the accident.
But there may be cases where the landlord absolves his tenant from performance in ways which release the other covenantors.
The forces of good are deceitful, proud and capricious; evil is largely unrepentant, self-pitying and, yet, absolved.
The law allows packs of hounds to be exercised, and absolves huntsmen from blame if dogs catch a scent and kill a fox, so long as they do not set out to go fox hunting and do everything they can to stop the chase and a kill taking place.
On Good Friday, continental Europeans commemorate that Christ was crucified and died to absolve our sins and give us eternal salvation.
They gave her simple interest on it and they absolved her of her liability for the occupation rent.
Dalits would like the support to negativist thesis because it ultimately absolves their ideal from neglecting the real interests of his followers.
Idrieus, prince of Caria, that is ascribed to Agesilaus; it is this: “If Nicias be innocent, absolve him; if he be guilty, absolve him upon my account; however be sure to absolve him.” The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Absolve, Domine, animas omnium fidelium defunctorum ab omni vinculo delictorum et gratia tua illis succurente mereantur evadere iudicium ultionis, et lucis æterne beatitudine perfrui. Archive 2009-06-01
The candidate takes the failure on himself and, in that way, absolves his followers of responsibility for the defeat and allows them to go on their way with a feeling of closure.
At a single stroke it absolves you from registering any sort of protest yourself as well as from paying any further attention to the speaker, and it gives you something interesting to look at.
One of your correspondents greatly doubts my having heard five thousand asserters of evangelical principles (Catholic-absolvent or On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
The Pope had already absolved Henry from obedience to the Provisions, and the Award of Louis, given at Amiens and called the _Mise of Amiens_, was entirely in Henry's favour. The Rise of the Democracy
Sometimes the relative pronouns compounded with _cunque_ and _libet_ are separated by the insertion of some other word or words between them, which in grammatical language is called a tmesis -- as _quod enim cunque judicium subierat, absolvebatur; quem sors dierum cunque tibi dederit, lucre appone, _ 'whatever day chance may give thee, consider it as a gain.' C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
I've recently learned that I will soon be leaving this world, so I must absolve my sins in the short time I have remaining in order to gain my acceptance into Heaven.
is absolved from all blame
The story finishes with Dolf conflicted, with Lemonnier shifting the role of absolver from Dolf himself on to us. Epinions Recent Content for Home
I don't think it absolves the low-level MPs from moral responsibility, but it should steer us away from explanations which depend on their moral exceptionality.
Oppenheimer seems to have absolved himself for lack of special expertise in ethics.
He had provided a father-confessor figure to absolve the youngster's sins and absorb his phobias.
Next, absolve all the implementers, practitioners and related agencies, under the excuse of 'complying with orders without questioning,' and then start giving the 'drafters' of the memos an out by transferring the decision for action to the states. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Heads-Heads
So it beggars belief the astonishing venal self-interest in the kind of banking lobby that whinges about a modest levy when they will not be paying any corporation tax to the coffers at all because of the enormous losses that were caused by their stupidity and greed will absolve them of paying tax," he said. Clegg: Bankers Should 'Fear' Liberal Democrats
But after his accession the unsettled state of the kingdom made it impossible to keep this vow, and he was absolved from it by the Pope on the condition that he should found or re-endow a monastic church dedicated to St. Peter. Westminster The Fascination of London
Did being a hunter-gatherer absolve the whole species from domestic tasks? JUST BETWEEN US
And not even the all-embracing, everlasting, multitudinous seas could absolve this. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
Johannesburg's mayor in terms of the Gatherings Act. In a statement released at the venue, the SAJBD and SAZF's media response team, the two bodies "absolved" Wits "totally from any responsibility vis-à-vis the safety and security of members of the audience and the media". ANC Daily News Briefing
But she had to do something, she had to absolve this terrible feeling of guilt. LOADED QUESTIONS
Hereby", he said, "it appears that either Greenwell told you out of confession, and then there would be no secrecy: or, if it were in confession, he professed no penitency, and therefore you could not absolve him. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
He was accused of heresy, brought before convocation, and absolved on making a complete submission, 1532.
With a gigantic career based upon an aw-shucks tone of blue collar tales of midwestern values, couldn't one little fling many years ago get absolved after a teary apology?
Some of those officers falsely accused and then absolved played a prominent role in suppressing the July plot. Times, Sunday Times
The President absolved his officers and took the blame upon himself.
The capacity of history to absolve political actors is a cynical and immoral doctrine.
Niall Ferguson's popular histories are part of a similar psychological need for powerful countries to absolve themselves of guilt so they can enjoy their wealth more relaxedly. Development experts need to be bolder about letting history in | Jonathan Glennie
The court absolved him of all responsibility for the accident.
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Audience laugh at his figure at the end of the Play, as well as they had at the beginning; but I believe if I had put an _Absolver_ upon his back, giving him a Blessing, it would have been more divertive by half; but let him alone, the next horrible Crime is, I meddle with Churchmen, and there my _malice makes me_, he says, _lay about me like a Knight Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699)
His warning came as the Azanian People抯 Organisation (Azapo) called for the prosecution of "apartheid assassins" who were "absolved" by the ANC Daily News Briefing
He blithely absolves this libel as an example of "antonomasia".
What lay chaplains cannot do is say Mass, anoint the sick, and absolve sin after confession.
I'm not sure that I'd go so far as to relegate the Wii to the realm of the gimcrack, but nor am I convinced that Nintendo has managed to absolve the console of such charges as fully as it might. Are You So Over It?
His Moorish lineage does not absolve the majority from political responsibility; instead it draws attention to the spread of neocolonialism in business and politics.
With a little gratulatory chuckle he went on to say that for others it was necessary to obey all the ordinances of the Church, to contribute to its support, hear mass, confess from time to time, and receive absolution; consequently those who went out into the wilderness, where there were no churches and no priests to absolve them, did so at the risk of losing their souls. Green Mansions
Readying ourselves for conventional war does not, however, absolve us from undertaking a major transformation in the way we think about, and conceive of, the use of military force.
That is why murder is literally unforgivable: How can a dead man absolve his killer?
But then I remembered that it had died of paralysis and I felt that I too was smiling feebly as if to absolve the simoniac of his sin. Dubliners
And therefore I was absolved from having to get up at a ridiculous time and then pay ten pounds for breakfast given that I'd already taken part in the ritual.
The President absolved his officers and took the blame upon himself.
Not making a decision absolves procrastinators of responsibility for the outcome of events.
But on the other hand it has the sacrament of confession, whereby if you do sin you can be absolved and start afresh.
They agree to absolve us from our obligation.
And is not Apollo the purifier, and the washer, and the absolver from all impurities? The CRATYLUS
First, he is the purifier or purger or absolver (apolouon); secondly, he is the true diviner, Aplos, as he is called in the Thessalian dialect Cratylus
No order of the commission, board, or Secretary or judgment of the court to enforce the same shall in anywise relieve or absolve any person from any liability under the antitrust laws.
Justificare significat Apostolo in disputatione de justificatione, peccata remittere, a culpa et poena absolvere, in gratiam recipere, et justum pronunciare. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
But she had to do something, she had to absolve this terrible feeling of guilt. LOADED QUESTIONS
The court absolved him of all responsibility for the accident.
From her promise once given she felt no change of purpose could absolve her; and therefore rarely would she give it absolutely, for she _could not_ alter the thing that had gone forth from her lips. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
Castigatorul celei de-a saptea editii a programului, Razvan Lefter, absolvent al Facultatii de Finante, ZF
When they had entered the council chamber and reached the tribunal where Pontius was seated, the fetial addressed him thus: "Forasmuch as these men have, without being ordered thereto by the Roman people, the Quirites, given their promise and oath that a treaty shall be concluded and have thereby been guilty of high crime and misdemeanour, I do herewith make surrender to you of these men, to the end that the Roman people may be absolved from the guilt of a heinous and detestable act. The History of Rome, Vol. II
His neatly circumscribed theory can, he believes, organize human experience and explain human nature; it also absolves him of responsibility.
The report absolved her from/of all blame for the accident.
Ignorance does not absolve you from the rule of law you know.
With a sigh I absolved the imaginary wife of Athanasius from ensuring the triumph of Arianism. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Vieira absolved any individuals of blame for the shocking defensive display in Munich, but revealed his frustration at yet another European campaign that could be thrown away.
The difference in vocal treatment comes in regarding the principal emphasis as absolute or final, as making the word absolved from, cut off from, the rest of the sentence following, and having a final stop or conclusive effect, while the secondary may be regarded as only relatively emphatic, as being related in a subordinate way to the principal, and as maintaining a connection with the rest of the sentence, or as hanging upon the words which follow, or as being a step leading up to the main idea. Public Speaking
Adam cried desperately, crossing his fingers behind his back in the childish belief that such a gesture would absolve him. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
Some of those officers falsely accused and then absolved played a prominent role in suppressing the July plot. Times, Sunday Times
There are ways to lie and be completely absolved of any kind of accountability.
Adam cried desperately, crossing his fingers behind his back in the childish belief that such a gesture would absolve him. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
It absolved him of jealousy and spread balm on her irritations and reassured her that she had not the slightest regret.
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.
shriven" or absolved from their sins, so they were able to start Lent feeling clean of spirit. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
He blithely absolves this libel as an example of "antonomasia" ( "the use of a proper name to express a general idea," OED), saying rather too airily that in this instance he meant a "Pat Boone-type" to imply any crooner of the well-scrubbed variety. Happy Days Are Here Again
The fact that our enemies allegedly fabricate similar evidence of wrongdoing on our part absolves us of responsibility to reveal true, unfabricated evidence.
This in no way absolves those who would pervert that power for personal gain, nor does it excuse the outright blackmail-type pressures that have been brought to bear upon many of us to accede. Randall Amster: Occupy Ourselves
To his horror, those who trusted Beecher implicitly insisted upon a full airing of the scurrilous charges, confident that their shepherd would be absolved and his libeler humiliated. Darwin in the New World
Winding through this timberland of wind catchers, Ken stops to point out the original seed, the squat "blunderbuss," a ducted turbine installed in 1926 by one Dew Oliver, who raised $12 million for his scheme, but ended up convicted of fraud, though today he would not only be absolved, but crowned a haruspex, the Benjamin Graham of energy pickers. Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?
Moreover many who even professed that "all life is yoga" found it more convenient to adulate since it absolved them of their own need to realize. Right to express one's convictions in religious terms
The court absolved him of guilt in her death.
I absolve him - though I would not do the same for all his cabinet colleagues - of a desire not to antagonise the voters to whom the Conservative advertisement was meant to appeal.
I was definitely expecting her to feel downhearted and at a loss regarding her own work – I was just shocked and appalled by the fact that she cut to absolve herself. A PERFECT ENVELOPE • by Maria H. McDonald
Yet the Treasury simply switched off all hearing aids and neatly absolved itself of blame.
The fact that it's wildlife absolves us of the moral question that hangs in the air when we see footage of humans in mortal danger - why didn't the camera crew do something to help?
None of us can be absolved wholly of wrong doing.
It's an interactive video featuring real people confessing their most bizarre sins; with website viewers voting to absolve or condemn the confessor.
The film absolves us of any obligation to remember the disasters that followed.
Thank God, I am absolved from my promise.
The priest absolved him .
By concentrating all evil in the oppressors, it absolves the victims from examining their own failings.
A police investigation yesterday absolved the police of all blame in the incident.
But she had to do something, she had to absolve this terrible feeling of guilt. LOADED QUESTIONS
The author hereby absolves herself of all knowledge, responsibility and blame.
And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my records. Lance Mannion:
Absolved of our sins, we are once more made as clean as the day of our baptism.
Winding through this timberland of wind catchers, Ken stops to point out the original seed, the squat "blunderbuss," a ducted turbine installed in 1926 by one Dew Oliver, who raised $12 million for his scheme, but ended up convicted of fraud, though today he would not only be absolved, but crowned a haruspex, the Benjamin Graham of energy pickers. Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?
He was not to be dissuaded from his purpose, though the ladies would have absolved him from all unpoliteness, and even requested him to accompany the skaters. The Child of Mystery
COOPER: Well, by the Christian calendar, tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, the world shrove from the old English word -- verb to -- to shrive, meaning to absolve. CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2006
It did not completely absolve itself of blame, however, admitting that its rapid expansion and consequent dependence on increases in demand contributed to the problems.
These answers are interchangeable and, what is more important, absolve both rulers and subjects from facing reality and taking responsibility.
Adam cried desperately, crossing his fingers behind his back in the childish belief that such a gesture would absolve him. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
The attack upon Chrysogonus is bold, and cannot but have been offensive to Sulla, though Sulla is by name absolved from immediate blame. The Life of Cicero
For Pfau, this model offers an experience of music in which its "sheer sonority is said to absolve us from the contingent" — from the world of representation as we know it in modernity. Response to Thomas Pfau
The fact that you were a woman did not absolve you from keeping to the ideals of chivalry, in times of crisis and in your ordinary life.
The priest does come, and absolves the ghost's sins, after which it can rest.
Mine is that many, whom become fathers and whom become the father that are such loathed aka deabeats are usually low in self esteem, poorly educated, jobless or poorly employed, low skilled, and no one said that should absolve them from their reponsibilities automatically but they should be assisted. Court Strongly Rejects “Choice For Men” Civil Rights Lawsuit
In the Catholic tradition, absolution from sin is obtained through confession, in which the penitent confesses to a priest who then absolves the sin and administers penitence.
None of us can be absolved wholly of wrong doing.
On Good Friday, continental Europeans commemorate that Christ was crucified and died to absolve our sins and give us eternal salvation.
COOPER: Well, by the Christian calendar, tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, the world shrove from the old English word -- verb to -- to shrive, meaning to absolve. CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2006
Rather than having a genuine buy-in to reducing the number of bags used and making sure that they don't get into the environment, a plastic bag levy absolves people of responsibility.

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