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Pardoned lab meddling with doves?
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absolved
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Word definitions for absolved in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. freed from any question of guilt; "is absolved from all blame"; "was now clear of the charge of cowardice"; "his official honor is vindicated" [syn: clear , cleared , exculpated , exonerated , vindicated ]
Wiktionary
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vb. (en-past of: absolve )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Absolve \Ab*solve"\ (#; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Absolved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Absolving .] [L. absolvere to set free, to absolve; ab + solvere to loose. See Assoil , Solve .] To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from ...
Usage examples of absolved.
Then he imposed a penance of prayer and fasting, and then absolved them.
But according to John 8 Christ absolved the adulterous woman without Penance.
It seemed to Smith, upon reading the individual reports, that many of them would have been absolved before their cases got beyond the deputy level, so flimsy were the accusations made against them.
Aurelia in Pistoja, to fall with tears at her feet, to be pardoned and absolved, to rise to the life of honour and respect once more.
I read, and turning my face to the Heavens, thanked God that I was absolved by the dear subject of my crimes.
The Army absolved him of all wrongdoing and offered to reinstate him if he wished.
He watched it, then dropped another daisy into the water, and after that another, and sat watching them with bright, absolved eyes, crouching near on the bank.
She seemed to have passed into a kind of dream world, absolved from the conditions of actuality.
Unless I set my will, unless I absolve myself from the rhythm of life, fix myself and remain static, cut off from living, absolved within my own will.
But to live mechanised and cut off within the motion of the will, to live as an entity absolved from the unknown, that is shameful and ignominious.