absolve

UK /əbˈzɒlv/ US /æbˈzɑlv/
verb 5

Definitions

verb

1

To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).

You will absolve a subject from his allegiance.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

2

To resolve; to explain; to solve.

1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 331-332, […] he that can monsters tame, laboures atchive, riddles absolve […]

we ſhall not abſolve the doubt.

3

To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.

A Heretic may see the truth and seek redemption. He may be forgiven his past and will be absolved in death. A Traitor can never be forgiven. A Traitor will never find peace in this world or the next. There is nothing as wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor.

4

To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.

Abſolves the juſt, and dooms the guilty ſouls.

5

To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.

To make confession and to be absolved.

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