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
He was the secular confessor of his day, always able to give absolution.
From The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale For Tired Men by Sir Max Beerbohm
Come and receive my little confession, and give absolution to Your Own Salome.
From The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
“What!” the Pope is said to have cried, “must we give absolution, which here in Avignon is paid for, and then give money too—it is contrary to reason!”
From Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 by Elise Whitlock Rose
Abellino is able to protect himself without foreign aid; and, as to pardon, mortals cannot give absolution for sins like mine.
From The Bravo of Venice; a romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
