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How to use absolve in a sentence

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What lay chaplains cannot do is say Mass, anoint the sick, and absolve sin after confession.
On Good Friday, continental Europeans commemorate that Christ was crucified and died to absolve our sins and give us eternal salvation.
These answers are interchangeable and, what is more important, absolve both rulers and subjects from facing reality and taking responsibility.
But the possibility that apathy may subvert anarchy does not absolve its inciters from responsibility.
To reject giving a child a jab in favour of chancing it with the disease is to absolve oneself of responsibility.
Galileo would not absolve them from blame for resorting to power when reason went against them.
The capacity of history to absolve political actors is a cynical and immoral doctrine.
The fact that you were a woman did not absolve you from keeping to the ideals of chivalry, in times of crisis and in your ordinary life.
At the same time, the right to free speech does not absolve us from our duty to behave responsibly.
Mr. Speaker, the fact that this case is being litigated does not absolve the government of its responsibility to follow the law.
Judicial leadership does not absolve other players of their responsibility to contribute to an effective justice system.
We cannot absolve ourselves of the responsibility to develop specific, creative and appropriate responses to reality.
Mere doubts or assumptions about their effectiveness do not absolve the authors from exhausting them.
Delegation of a function to a subcommittee does not absolve the IRC from its responsibility for the function.
But the intractability of the problem does not absolve us of the responsibility to engage in its resolution.
The promotion of peace, justice and the integrity of creation cannot absolve itself of a concern for the right to life.
Subsequently, the young defender was surrounded by congratulators, all in amber, but Arthur can't absolve himself of the fact that he could have done better there.
However, it is not a magic potion which will absolve us of the need to pursue appropriate economic policies.
Ignorance does not absolve you from the rule of law you know.
I've recently learned that I will soon be leaving this world, so I must absolve my sins in the short time I have remaining in order to gain my acceptance into Heaven.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But even this does not absolve the chivalrous man from the duty of frankness and explicitness.
That would be to absolve him from living, since it is life itself that is the burden.
Were I to be queen of the universe, that dignity should not absolve me from my duty to you and to my father.
There is no suggestion here that religion will absolve any man from bearing burdens.
Whilst we absolve the association from dishonesty, we cannot extend the same charity to their leaders.
But I may also neglect this reflex standard and absolve me to myself.
And we shall see if the Chamber won't absolve me by acclamation.
It is I that absolve you from an engagement which is impossible in our present misery.
The decline in participation in the Rite of Penance suggests that the power of a priest to absolve sins may be experienced by the faithful as an unauthentic exercise of power.
She read me what she had written, and it was direct and clear, and evidently intended to absolve me from any suspicion of profiting by the receipt of the money.
Skeptical theism seeks to absolve God of the evil in the world by pointing out that we are not in a position to know God's motives for allowing such evils to take place.
Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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