absolved

How To Use absolved In A Sentence

• To erode that bedrock is to subscribe, to a “divine right of kings” theory of governance, in which those who govern are absolved from adhering to the basic moral standards to which the governed are accountable. Bush Slanders Freedom « Antiwar.com Blog
• Now seeing in the last section, those we call mathematics are absolved of the crime of breeding controversy; and they that pretend not to learning cannot be accused; the fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass everywhere for truth, without any evident demonstration either from experience, or from places of Scripture of uncontroverted interpretation. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
• If he did, a public penance would be imposed and his sin would be absolved.
• He has been now absolved of all guilt, and his forgeries recognised as poetical Dada boutades.
• You can get your sins absolved while eating a burger.
• If he did, a public penance would be imposed and his sin would be absolved.
• When he was gone, she scolded me, and reproached me with what she called my coquetry and imprudence; I could not bear her injustice, and very rashly replied, that no one had a right to blame me when my own conscience absolved me. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
• A police investigation yesterday absolved the police of all blame in the incident.
• The court absolved him of guilt in her death.
• The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Marys