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
Holy priests are with us to hear all, and to give absolution.
From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green
On one occasion a woman canteen worker aided a Jewish rabbi to give absolution to a Catholic boy in a Y.M.C.A. hut when a priest could not be secured in time.
From The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man by William Benjamin West
As far as I am concerned I willingly give absolution to knaves, rogues and rascals and all the wretched.
From The Queen Pedauque by Jos. A. V. Stritzko
“What!” the Pope is said to have cried, “must we give absolution, which here in Avignon is paid for, and then give money too—it is contrary to reason!”
From Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 by Elise Whitlock Rose
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