Absolved
[əb'zɒlv]
Definition
(adj.) freed from any question of guilt; 'is absolved from all blame'; 'was now clear of the charge of cowardice'; 'his official honor is vindicated' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Absolve
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Examples
- No one is absolved from experiment and constant revision. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- From the rest, he was absolved entirely for the time being. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Unless I set my will, unless I absolve myself from the rhythm of life, fix myself and remain static, cut off from living, absolved within my own will. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And yet, said I, smiling, I cannot quite hold myself absolved from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my records. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- J'ai menti plusieurs fois, formed an item of every girl's and woman's monthly confession: the priest heard unshocked, and absolved unreluctant. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She seemed to have passed into a kind of dream world, absolved from the conditions of actuality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Whether she charged herself with these faults or absolved herself from them, made no difference in the sum-total of her failure. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But to live mechanised and cut off within the motion of the will, to live as an entity absolved from the unknown, that is shameful and ignominious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Never was wooer of wealthy bride so thoroughly absolved from the subaltern part, so inevitably compelled to assume a paramount character. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- People had passed out of her range, she was absolved. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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