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
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 Everett-Green, Evelyn
The Priest is not empowered to give absolution to every one indiscriminately.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James
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 Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory)
Ill-health now gained on Lorenzo, and Savonarola, whom he had summoned to his bedside, refused to give absolution to the destroyer of Florentine liberties.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
