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1. To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an

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1. To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay. 2. To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit ; -- said of the sin or guilt. In his name I absolve your perjury. Gibbon. 3. To finish; to accomplish. The work begun, how soon absolved. Milton. 4. To resolve or explain. "We shall not absolve the doubt." Sir T. Browne. Syn. -- To Absolve, Exonerate, Acquit. We speak of a man as absolved from something that binds his conscience, or involves the charge of wrongdoing; as, to absolve from allegiance or from the obligation of an oath, or a promise. We speak of a person as exonerated, when he is released from some burden which had rested upon him; as, to exonerate from suspicion, to exonerate from blame or odium. It implies a purely moral acquittal. We speak of a person as acquitted, when a decision has been made in his favor with reference to a specific charge, either by a jury or by disinterested persons; as, he was acquitted of all participation in the crime.

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  • DISMISSIVE
    Giving dismission.
  • EXCUSEMENT
    Excuse. Gower.
  • CLEANSABLE
    Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
  • PARDON
    A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
  • CLEAN-CUT
    See CLEAR-CUT
  • CLEARLY
    In a clear manner.
  • ELIMINATE
    To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
  • DISMISSAL
    Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
  • REMIT
    1. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits. 2. To send money, as in payment. Addison.
  • CLEANNESS
    1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
  • CLEARER
    A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
  • DISENCUMBER
    To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
  • CLEANING
    1. The act of making clean. 2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner.
  • CLEANLINESS
    State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.
  • FORGIVER
    One who forgives. Johnson.
  • INDULGEMENT
    Indulgence. Wood.
  • DISMISS
    1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
  • CONSTRAINTIVE
    Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
  • EXCUSER
    1. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift. 2. One who excuses or forgives another. Shelton.
  • CLEANLY
    1. Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith. 2. Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. "With cleanly powder dry their
  • ACQUIT
    Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
  • SUPREMITY
    Supremacy. Fuller.
  • CONFINER
    One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
  • RELEASE
    To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
  • EREMITE
    A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
  • UNCLEAN
    1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
  • POLYNUCLEAR
    Containing many nuclei.
  • HEREMITICAL
    Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope.
  • EXCUSE
    1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him

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