Definition of absolve

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Absolve (v. t.) To resolve or explain.

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Absolve :: Absolve (v. t.) To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment..
Justify :: "Justify (a.) To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to absolve; to exonerate; to clear..
Absolve :: Absolve (v. t.) To resolve or explain.
Quit :: Quit (v.) Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted..
Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit..
Loose :: Loose (a.) To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit..
Justify :: Justify (a.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.
Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him..
Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
Absolvent :: Absolvent (a.) Absolving.
Assoil :: Assoil (v. t.) To set free from guilt; to absolve.
Absolved :: Absolved (imp. & p. p.) of Absolv.
Absolutory :: Absolutory (a.) Serving to absolve; absolving.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear..
Solute :: Solute (v. t.) To absolve; as, to solute sin..
Absolve :: Absolve (v. t.) To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.
Absolver :: Absolver (n.) One who absolves.
Quit :: Quit (a.) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit..
Absolvent :: Absolvent (n.) An absolver.
Absolvable :: Absolvable (a.) That may be absolved.
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