give absolution
Example Sentences
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Fashionable Monsignor Royford crawls steadfastly along a narrow ledge, twelve stories above the ground, to give absolution.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You give absolution to the fathers, and visit the misfortunes of the mothers upon the children."
From Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted by Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
But this confessor can only define the penance, he cannot give absolution, a right which belongs to the masters.
From Life in the Medieval University by Rait, Robert S.
As far as I am concerned I willingly give absolution to knaves, rogues and rascals and all the wretched.
From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.
Holy priests are with us to hear all, and to give absolution.
From A Heroine of France by Everett-Green, Evelyn
