Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Giving absolution; capable of absolving: as, “an absolutory sentence,” Ayliffe, Parergon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Serving to absolve; absolving.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Serving to absolve; absolving; giving absolution.

Etymologies

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From Latin absolūtōrius, from absolvō ("absolve").

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