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
Abellino is able to protect himself without foreign aid; and, as to pardon, mortals cannot give absolution for sins like mine.
From The Bravo of Venice; a romance by Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory)
Come and receive my little confession, and give absolution to Your Own Salome.
From The Lost Lady of Lone by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
A priest is now, however, in attendance at every fight to give absolution in the event of a fatal accident.
From On the Equator by De Windt, Harry
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.
