How To Use Absolved In A Sentence
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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
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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
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If he did, a public penance would be imposed and his sin would be absolved.
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He has been now absolved of all guilt, and his forgeries recognised as poetical Dada boutades.
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You can get your sins absolved while eating a burger.
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If he did, a public penance would be imposed and his sin would be absolved.
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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
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A police investigation yesterday absolved the police of all blame in the incident.
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The court absolved him of guilt in her death.
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The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Marys
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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.
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Thank God, I am absolved from my promise.
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Mr Niehaus said the ANC still supported the position of the students on Mr Justice Leon and that they had not "absolved" him of "passing death sentences for political offences".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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A police investigation yesterday absolved the police of all blame in the incident.
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Recovering, he is absolved of his guilt by the understanding daughter.
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He absolved me from further obligation.
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He was absolved of all blame.
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Many of our sins are absolved through priests in confessional boxes.
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Thank God, I am absolved from my promise.
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It comes from the Roman Catholic practice of confessing one's sins and being absolved of them, or ‘shriven’.
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The fiction of a tardy repentance absolved the fame and the soul of her deceased husband; the sentence of the Iconoclast patriarch was commuted from the loss of his eyes to a whipping of two hundred lashes: the bishops trembled, the monks shouted, and the festival of orthodoxy preserves the annual memory of the triumph of the images.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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She was absolved of blame in the matter.
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When thou hast made a vow, do not seek to evade it, nor find excuses to get clear of the obligation of it; say not before the priest, who is called the angel or messenger of the Lord of hosts, that, upon second thoughts, thou hast changed thy mind, and desirest to be absolved from the obligation of thy vow; but stick to it, and do not seek a hole to creep out at.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Your sins are absolved, my son - no more apologies necessary.
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Scholes was one of the few players Ferguson absolved of any blame for what he described as a "ridiculous" and "careless" second-half performance.
Wayne Rooney must live with media yen for 'Gascoigne No2' – Ferguson
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The court absolved him of guilt in her death.
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Oppenheimer seems to have absolved himself for lack of special expertise in ethics.
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The bear hug is a crude hold and easily broken by anyone not inhibited by a devotion to fair play, and when attacked without warning from behind, the Saint considered himself absolved from the code of gentlemanly conduct.
Salvage for the Saint
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We are very pro people telling the truth, confessing, and being absolved of their sins - to take a slightly United Future view of the world.
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The report absolved her from/of all blame for the accident.
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Juliet tells Nurse to tell her mother that she is going to Friar Laurence's cell to confess her sins and be absolved.
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The vicarship was absolved, and the areas outside of Transylvania were again united with the main church.
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The priest absolved him of his sins.
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However, it is wrong to portray the women as innocent pawns, absolved of the responsibility of having collaborated with the forces of racism.
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The report absolved her from/of all blame for the accident.
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The forces of good are deceitful, proud and capricious; evil is largely unrepentant, self-pitying and, yet, absolved.
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They gave her simple interest on it and they absolved her of her liability for the occupation rent.
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The Pope had already absolved Henry from obedience to the Provisions, and the Award of Louis, given at Amiens and called the _Mise of Amiens_, was entirely in Henry's favour.
The Rise of the Democracy
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is absolved from all blame
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Oppenheimer seems to have absolved himself for lack of special expertise in ethics.
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But after his accession the unsettled state of the kingdom made it impossible to keep this vow, and he was absolved from it by the Pope on the condition that he should found or re-endow a monastic church dedicated to St. Peter.
Westminster The Fascination of London
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Johannesburg's mayor in terms of the Gatherings Act. In a statement released at the venue, the SAJBD and SAZF's media response team, the two bodies "absolved" Wits "totally from any responsibility vis-à-vis the safety and security of members of the audience and the media".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He was accused of heresy, brought before convocation, and absolved on making a complete submission, 1532.
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With a gigantic career based upon an aw-shucks tone of blue collar tales of midwestern values, couldn't one little fling many years ago get absolved after a teary apology?
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Some of those officers falsely accused and then absolved played a prominent role in suppressing the July plot.
Times, Sunday Times
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The President absolved his officers and took the blame upon himself.
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The court absolved him of all responsibility for the accident.
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His warning came as the Azanian People抯 Organisation (Azapo) called for the prosecution of "apartheid assassins" who were "absolved" by the
ANC Daily News Briefing
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And therefore I was absolved from having to get up at a ridiculous time and then pay ten pounds for breakfast given that I'd already taken part in the ritual.
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The President absolved his officers and took the blame upon himself.
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But on the other hand it has the sacrament of confession, whereby if you do sin you can be absolved and start afresh.
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The court absolved him of all responsibility for the accident.
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When they had entered the council chamber and reached the tribunal where Pontius was seated, the fetial addressed him thus: "Forasmuch as these men have, without being ordered thereto by the Roman people, the Quirites, given their promise and oath that a treaty shall be concluded and have thereby been guilty of high crime and misdemeanour, I do herewith make surrender to you of these men, to the end that the Roman people may be absolved from the guilt of a heinous and detestable act.
The History of Rome, Vol. II
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The report absolved her from/of all blame for the accident.
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With a sigh I absolved the imaginary wife of Athanasius from ensuring the triumph of Arianism.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Vieira absolved any individuals of blame for the shocking defensive display in Munich, but revealed his frustration at yet another European campaign that could be thrown away.
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The difference in vocal treatment comes in regarding the principal emphasis as absolute or final, as making the word absolved from, cut off from, the rest of the sentence following, and having a final stop or conclusive effect, while the secondary may be regarded as only relatively emphatic, as being related in a subordinate way to the principal, and as maintaining a connection with the rest of the sentence, or as hanging upon the words which follow, or as being a step leading up to the main idea.
Public Speaking
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Some of those officers falsely accused and then absolved played a prominent role in suppressing the July plot.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are ways to lie and be completely absolved of any kind of accountability.
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It absolved him of jealousy and spread balm on her irritations and reassured her that she had not the slightest regret.
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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.
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shriven" or absolved from their sins, so they were able to start Lent feeling clean of spirit.
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To his horror, those who trusted Beecher implicitly insisted upon a full airing of the scurrilous charges, confident that their shepherd would be absolved and his libeler humiliated.
Darwin in the New World
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Winding through this timberland of wind catchers, Ken stops to point out the original seed, the squat "blunderbuss," a ducted turbine installed in 1926 by one Dew Oliver, who raised $12 million for his scheme, but ended up convicted of fraud, though today he would not only be absolved, but crowned a haruspex, the Benjamin Graham of energy pickers.
Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?
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Moreover many who even professed that "all life is yoga" found it more convenient to adulate since it absolved them of their own need to realize.
Right to express one's convictions in religious terms
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The court absolved him of guilt in her death.
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Yet the Treasury simply switched off all hearing aids and neatly absolved itself of blame.
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None of us can be absolved wholly of wrong doing.
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Thank God, I am absolved from my promise.
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The priest absolved him .
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A police investigation yesterday absolved the police of all blame in the incident.
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And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my records.
Lance Mannion:
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Absolved of our sins, we are once more made as clean as the day of our baptism.
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Winding through this timberland of wind catchers, Ken stops to point out the original seed, the squat "blunderbuss," a ducted turbine installed in 1926 by one Dew Oliver, who raised $12 million for his scheme, but ended up convicted of fraud, though today he would not only be absolved, but crowned a haruspex, the Benjamin Graham of energy pickers.
Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?
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He was not to be dissuaded from his purpose, though the ladies would have absolved him from all unpoliteness, and even requested him to accompany the skaters.
The Child of Mystery
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The attack upon Chrysogonus is bold, and cannot but have been offensive to Sulla, though Sulla is by name absolved from immediate blame.
The Life of Cicero
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None of us can be absolved wholly of wrong doing.
