absolve
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Emerson was right when he said, “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. … Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2022
The year was 1953, the year of Castro’s “History Will Absolve Me” speech.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2022
Absolve her of the death of my father?
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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Will you Absolve me, if I say I’m sorry too?
From Domesday Book by Masters, Edgar Lee
Ordination confers on him habitual jurisdiction, i.e. the power to exercise his office, to Absolve, to Consecrate, to Bless, in the "Holy Church throughout the world".
From The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments by Holmes, E. E.
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The Declaration of Independence
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