What is "absolutions"

Usage examples of "absolutions".

The boy is initiated into manhood by repeated absolutions in the water.

With your indulgences and your absolutions you have usurped the power of God himself.

Macfarlane, in speaking of Italian banditti, remarks, that the abuses of the Catholic religion, with its confessions and absolutions, have tended to promote crime of this description.

Once the Mass was over and the absolutions given, the nuns carried the coffin out through the rain to the small private cemetery in a corner between the inner and outer walls of the convent.

Her plea "No," had initially come out shrill, deepened, got bottom in it, was whispered, was harmonized with hiccupping tears, hysteria giving way to pleads, no, then lucid, calm, talking to his chest in a low murmur of reverence, speaking to it like it was a dark confessional, searching for an invisible priest within it to give her absolutions from the sin of still loving him.

With a flourish, Einstein ceased his absolutions and deftly returned the silvered steel to its ebony sheath.