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Definition of Absolving
1. absolve [v] - See also: absolve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Absolving
Literary usage of Absolving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... OF WAR, FOR THOSE IN AUTHORITY—PRAYER USED BY AN absolving PRIEST—GENUINENESS
OF THE FOREGOING PRAYERS—CHARACTER AND WORKS or SAHAGUN. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... where the testimony of many persons implicated is required, Acts of indemnity
are occasionally passed, with the view of absolving from punishment or ..."
3. The Annals of Roger de Hoveden: Comprising the History of England and of by Roger, Roger of Hoveden, Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
"... and of absolving the same, in due ecclesiastical form. To this sanction we do
also add, that, from lands newly brought into cultivation, tithes are not ..."
4. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"Mr. Collier, one of the absolving parsons, has privately printed his vindication.
An expresse is come to the admiralty that the privateers of Guernsey ..."
5. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1867)
"making a protest, but ho did so with no sanguine idea of that protest doing more
than absolving his own conscience. He had been in the minority, ..."
6. Trust Laws and Unfair Competition by United States Bureau of Corporations, Joseph E. Davies (1916)
"Declaration to attorney general absolving criminal intent.—Any person who is a
party to a contract, combination, etc., may declare the facts and purposes to ..."
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