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
“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 Rose, Elise Whitlock
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
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)
Shrive, shrīv, v.t. to hear a confession from and give absolution to.—v.i. to receive confession: to make such:—pa.t. shrōve or shrīved; pa.p. shriv′en.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
