“They favored the use of general absolution and found that the practice of private confession encouraged scrupulosity.”

“This ritual of confession, absolution and penance inadvertently hides as much as it discloses.”

“But he uses the legal term of judge to describe the role of priest confessor, and that terminology is far from my mind when I give absolution.”

“Church absolution is an eternal protest, in the name of God the absolver, against the false judgments of society.”

“This presumptuous absolver would make men careless about both.”

“In any case, none of the roles of the Green Knight, as knight, challenger, hunter, host, absolver, and Judge, conflict with his allegorical identity as Christ.”

“The apologies and absolutions at the end of the movie were rather trite and underdone.”

“A review of some of the most noteworthy pardons in American history reveals a colorful assortment of Presidential absolutions.”

“This led to the handing down of a variety of sentences, and some absolutions.”