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
The Priest is not empowered to give absolution to every one indiscriminately.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons
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
Ill-health now gained on Lorenzo, and Savonarola, whom he had summoned to his bedside, refused to give absolution to the destroyer of Florentine liberties.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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 Robert S. Rait
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