give absolution
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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
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.
"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
Shrive, shrīv, v.t. to hear a confession from and give absolution to.—v.i. to receive confession: to make such:—pa.t. shrōve or shrīved; pa.p. shriv′en.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Holy priests are with us to hear all, and to give absolution.
From A Heroine of France by Everett-Green, Evelyn
