absolve
Definitions
- To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).
- To resolve; to explain; to solve.
- To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.
- To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.
- To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.
- To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin.
- To finish; to accomplish.
- To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.
Equivalents
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Examples
“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.”
“The Committee divided, and Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen.”
“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⟳.”
“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.”
“Abſolves the juſt, and dooms the guilty ſouls.”
“To make⟳ confession and to be absolved.”
“In his name⟳ I abſolve your perjury and ſanctify your arms: follow⟳ my footſteps in the paths of glory and ſalvation; and if ſtill ye have⟳ ſcruples, devolve on my head the puniſhment and the ſin.”
“and the work⟳ begun, how ſoon / Abſolv'd,”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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