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
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
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
"You give absolution to the fathers, and visit the misfortunes of the mothers upon the children."
From Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted by Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
A priest is now, however, in attendance at every fight to give absolution in the event of a fatal accident.
From On the Equator by De Windt, Harry
