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Absolved   /əbzˈɑlvd/  /æbzˈɑlvd/   Listen
Absolved

adjective
1.
Freed from any question of guilt.  Synonyms: clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated.  "Was now clear of the charge of cowardice" , "His official honor is vindicated"



Absolve

verb
(past & past part. absolved; pres. part. absolving)
1.
Grant remission of a sin to.  Synonym: shrive.
2.
Let off the hook.  Synonyms: free, justify.  Antonym: blame.



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"Absolved" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dominichin and the rest of the things. I have incredibly trouble about them, for they arrived just as the quarantine was established. Then they found out that the Pembroke had left the fleet so long before the infection in Sicily began, and had not touched at any port there, that the admiralty absolved it. Then the things were brought up; then they were sent back to be aired; and still I am not to have them in a week. I tremble for the pictures; for they are to be aired at the rough discretion of a ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole

... has usurped the place of supreme head of the church, has sent her realm to perdition and has celebrated the impious mysteries of Calvin, therefore she is cut off from the body of Christ and deprived of her pretended right to rule England, while all her subjects are absolved from their oaths of allegiance. The bull also reasserted Elizabeth's illegitimacy, and echoed the complaint of the northern earls that she had expelled the old nobility from her council. The promulgation of the bull, without the ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... to Henry IV. by transferring to him his ring. A paper was put into Richard's hands, from which he read an acknowledgment of being incapable of the royal office, and worthy, from his past conduct, to be deposed; that he freely absolved his subjects from their allegiance, and swore by the holy Gospels never to act in opposition to this surrender: adding, that if it were left wholly to him to name the future monarch, it should be Henry of Lancaster, to whom he then gave ...
— Coronation Anecdotes • Giles Gossip

... not to make a display of beneficence—for he had nothing, but because he was happiest among simple people. He was fond of bread and butter of the Mrs. Claus variety. For the rest, he said mass, preached about sin, catechised, confirmed, absolved, and did whatever needed to be done. He performed the functions of his office, and did not think it at all strange that he should have gone into the church, while his brother in Nordbrabant succeeded to the business of his father, who was a ...
— Walter Pieterse - A Story of Holland • Multatuli

... years after his ostensible conversion, the king was obliged daily to perform the most humiliating ceremonies, by way of penance; and it was not till 1594 that he was absolved by Clement VIII. The Leaguers then had no further pretext for rebellion, and the League necessarily was dissolved. Its chiefs exacted high terms for their submission; but the civil wars had so exhausted the kingdom, that tranquillity could not be too dearly purchased; ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various


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