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
The Priest is not empowered to give absolution to every one indiscriminately.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James
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
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
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)
