Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who absolves; one who remits sin, or pronounces it to be remitted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who absolves.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who grants absolution
Etymologies
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Examples
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So much weight, in fact, that since arriving in Cape Town I have found myself acting as absolver.
Periscope 2008
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"" The eraser is our confessor, our absolver and our time machine. ''
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And is not Apollo the purifier, and the washer, and the absolver from all impurities?
The CRATYLUS Plato 1975
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Apparently the whole idea of human priesthood was proved, once and for ever, to be baseless; human mediation, in every possible form, was vehemently controverted; men were referred back to God as the sole absolver.
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson
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SOCRATES: And is not Apollo the purifier, and the washer, and the absolver from all impurities?
Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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First, he is the purifier or purger or absolver (apolouon); secondly, he is the true diviner, Aplos, as he is called in the Thessalian dialect
Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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The app also guides you through the format and prayers for confession so that you won't get all tongue tied and amnesic when sitting before a collared absolver.
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The story finishes with Dolf conflicted, with Lemonnier shifting the role of absolver from Dolf himself on to us.
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The story finishes with Dolf conflicted, with Lemonnier shifting the role of absolver from Dolf himself on to us.
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The story finishes with Dolf conflicted, with Lemonnier shifting the role of absolver from Dolf himself on to us.
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