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Definition of Absolves
1. absolve [v] - See also: absolve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Absolves
Literary usage of Absolves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rights, Remedies, and Practice, at Law, in Equity, and Under the Codes: A by John Davison Lawson (1889)
"Ratification absolves Agent, and Shifts Liability. •—Tho ratification by the
principal absolves the agent from all liability, and estops the principal from ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1824)
"... into a Diet of Confedera... tices; lie which .11 questions ore to be decided
by a Majority. The Die: opened by the King lie Person. The Diet absolves ..."
3. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1900)
"Congress absolves Him from Responsibility in the Loss of the Forts in the Highlands.
Philadelphia 27th Septem. 1778. Sir, On the 21st I had the honor of ..."
4. Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"Which cords and withes will hold men's consciences no longer than Force attends
and twists them : for every man soon grows his own Pope, and easily absolves ..."
5. The Flowers of History, Especially Such as Relate to the Affairs of Britain by Matthew Paris (1853)
"... king of Scotland— The pope absolves the English from their obedience to
John —John subdues North Wales—The king of France prepares to invade England ..."
6. A History of the Commonwealth of Florence: From the Earliest Independence of by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1865)
"... and attempts to suborn the Marquis of Pescara—Clement returns again to alliance
with Francis—absolves Francis from his oath to Charles V.— Italian ..."
7. The Papacy and the Civil Power by Richard Wigginton Thompson (1876)
"Adrian I.— He absolves the Franks from all Crimes in Bavaria.—Makes Charlemagne
Emperor.— He completes the Papal Rebellion against the Empire. ..."
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