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
The cases in which a priest was forbidden to give absolution.
From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Luther, Martin
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.
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.
The Priest is not empowered to give absolution to every one indiscriminately.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James
