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
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 Rait, Robert S.
He was the secular confessor of his day, always able to give absolution.
From The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale For Tired Men by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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
The cases in which a priest was forbidden to give absolution.
From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Luther, Martin
