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verb free from responsibility, duty

adjective. not guilty

adjective. not guilty

adjective. not guilty

adjective. freed from responsibility

early 15c., from Latin absolvere "set free, loosen, acquit," from ab- "from" (see ab-) + solvere "loosen" (see solve). Related: Absolved; absolving.

Clennam again assured him that he absolved it of the responsibility.

There are a number of causes and for some of them finance cannot be absolved from responsibility.

St. Benedict, probably, was not a priest, and had not absolved them as regards their guilt.

He was so happy that he had found her that he could have absolved her of a deeper blame than this.

But of which I absolved him, sister Dinah; or rather, which I made him retract.

"For the present, dear, you are absolved from any obligation to me," he said very gravely.

You have utterly broken your promise; I am absolved from mine.

We are absolved in private, and make confession thus; you, in public.

I have kept the fasts: have made my confessions and been absolved.

There is no crime which may not be absolved by this act of obedience to God.