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
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 Priest is not empowered to give absolution to every one indiscriminately.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James
On one occasion a woman canteen worker aided a Jewish rabbi to give absolution to a Catholic boy in a Y.M.C.A. hut when a priest could not be secured in time.
From The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man by West, William Benjamin
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.
