absolved

Meaning

of Absolve

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

clear liberated acquitted exempt overlooked redeemed whitewashed aerated shrove exonerate cleared decipherable not guilty vindicated exonerated
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Antonyms

accused blamed punished blasted condemned charged
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Phrases with the word

absolved of absolved from

Examples

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. Charlotte Brontë

The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved. Publilius Syrus

The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action can and must be surrendered. And in this transfer, the apparatus also assumes the role of a moral agent. Conscience is absolved by reification. Herbert Marcuse

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. James Buchan

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime. Winston Churchill

Pleasure is created. Sins are absolved. Life is rejuvenated. Sumerian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

absolvatory absolve absolve from absolved from absolved of absolvement