Crossword clues for absolved
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.]
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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.
Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen.
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To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.
In his name I absolve your perjury.
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To finish; to accomplish. [Obs.]
The work begun, how soon absolved.
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To resolve or explain. [Obs.] ``We shall not absolve the doubt.''
--Sir T. Browne.Syn: To Absolve, Exonerate, Acquit.
Usage: We speak of a man as absolved from something that binds his conscience, or involves the charge of wrongdoing; as, to absolve from allegiance or from the obligation of an oath, or a promise. We speak of a person as exonerated, when he is released from some burden which had rested upon him; as, to exonerate from suspicion, to exonerate from blame or odium. It implies a purely moral acquittal. We speak of a person as acquitted, when a decision has been made in his favor with reference to a specific charge, either by a jury or by disinterested persons; as, he was acquitted of all participation in the crime.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: absolve)
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]
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.