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What is the verb for absolution?

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absolve
  1. (transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.). [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To resolve; to explain; to solve. [Attested from the late 15th century until the mid 17th century.]
  3. (transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
  4. (transitive, law) To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
  5. (theology) To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
  6. (theology) To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
  7. (transitive, obsolete) To finish; to accomplish. [Attested from the late 16th century until the early 19th century.]
  8. (transitive) To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.
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  10. Examples:
    1. “Maybe it will absolve you from legal liability in an American court of law, but the moral responsibility remains because you are unsure if your users are lying about their ages.”
      “I absolve you of your sins.”
      “What lay chaplains cannot do is say Mass, anoint the sick, and absolve sin after confession.”
absolue
  1. obsolete typography of absolve
absolves
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absolve
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Publicly, the Scotsman absolves the Irishman of any responsibility for his plight.”
      “Not making a decision absolves procrastinators of responsibility for the outcome of events.”
      “It is only when Conrad's case is taken on by an understanding therapist who absolves him of his guilt that he can be cured.”
absolveth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of absolve
absolvest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of absolve
absolved
  1. simple past tense and past participle of absolve
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The U.S. bears no small amount of blame for the U.N.'s toothlessness, but the rest of the world certainly is not absolved of responsibility.”
      “Wherein iniquities have their natural thetas, and no nocent is absolved by the verdict of himself.”
      “If he did, a public penance would be imposed and his sin would be absolved.”
absolving
  1. present participle of absolve
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Your contract will contain a voetstoots clause absolving your seller from all liability for latent and patent defects.”
      “The concept of a tragic flaw, after all, is strangely comforting, even absolving.”
      “The first sequence spoke to me of how merciful God is for absolving my transgressions.”
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