give absolution
Example Sentences
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Fashionable Monsignor Royford crawls steadfastly along a narrow ledge, twelve stories above the ground, to give absolution.
From Time Magazine Archive
As far as I am concerned I willingly give absolution to knaves, rogues and rascals and all the wretched.
From The Queen Pedauque by Jos. A. V. Stritzko
But this confessor can only define the penance, he cannot give absolution, a right which belongs to the masters.
From Life in the Medieval University by Robert S. Rait
Ride quickly into the city, and bid the priests come forth to hear the confessions and give absolution to the dying.
From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green
A priest is now, however, in attendance at every fight to give absolution in the event of a fatal accident.
From On the Equator by Harry De Windt
