Definition of Assoils

1. Verb. (third-person singular of assoil) ¹

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Definition of Assoils

1. assoil [v] - See also: assoil

Literary usage of Assoils

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Contemporary Review (1868)
"The knight in distress of mind is sure to find some hermitage or chapel where a good priest shrives and assoils him, and administers to him the sacrament, ..."

2. Collected Poems by Alfred Noyes (1920)
"... but the white dust assoils 'em! Paradise without a spice of deviltry would cloy. Heavy is my pack till I meet with Jerry ..."

3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"CHORUS Therefore thou livest; death assoils her deed. ORESTES Then while she lived why didst thou hunt her not? CHORUS She was not kin by blood to him she ..."

4. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1400 by John Edwin Wells (1916)
"Then he casts off his bonds, 'assoils' the clergy and the rest with a drubbing, and breaks the brother's back and binds him by the post. ..."

5. History of Prose Fiction by John Colin Dunlop (1906)
"... the evil expiated, he throws off his chains, mounts the papal throne, and there vanquishes, and assoils the stain of sin. The story of Gregory forma No. ..."

6. Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Selected Poems by William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1916)
"And the priest assoils him thoroughly and set him as clean as if doomsday had been due on the morrow. And afterwards Gawain makes more mirth among the fair ..."

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