give absolution
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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
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As far as I am concerned I willingly give absolution to knaves, rogues and rascals and all the wretched.
From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.
The Priest is not empowered to give absolution to every one indiscriminately.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James
Holy priests are with us to hear all, and to give absolution.
From A Heroine of France by Everett-Green, Evelyn
Come and receive my little confession, and give absolution to Your Own Salome.
From The Lost Lady of Lone by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte