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
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 Harry De Windt
The cases in which a priest was forbidden to give absolution.
From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther
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 William Benjamin West
Holy priests are with us to hear all, and to give absolution.
From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green
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