English vocabulary examples in context: absolve
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 1.
Here one curses her and calls her capricious, fickle, and immodest, there another condemns her as frail and frivolous; this pardons and absolves her, that spurns and reviles her; one extols her beauty, another assails her character, and in short all abuse her, and all adore her, and to such a pitch has this general infatuation gone that there are some who complain of her scorn without ever having exchanged a word with her, and even some that bewail and mourn the raging fever of jealousy, for which she never gave anyone cause, for, as I have already said, her misconduct was known before her passion.
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 2.
But then I remembered that it had died of paralysis and I felt that I too was smiling feebly as if to absolve the simoniac of his sin.
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 3.
Nay, more if you all agree, later you are absolved from the promise.'
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 4.
Bear this well in mind sir: the French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be absolved by the future; its result is the world made better.
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 5.
If he has committed any crime, he has most fearfully expiated it, and in our eyes he is absolved.
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 6.
First of all, let me tell you that poor Gorshkov has been entirely absolved of guilt.
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 7.
'I have a right to be proud of it.' 'Yes, my daughter; and I absolve you from your pride.'
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 8.
It is I that absolve you from an engagement which is impossible in our present misery.
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 9.
The bee did not atone, by its honey-making, for its sting; a full-blown rose did not absolve the sun for yellow fever and black vomit.
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 10.
It is the habit of the envious man to absolve himself, amalgamating with his personal grievance the public wrongs.
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 11.
Duty required this sacrifice, duty takes precedence of all things, nothing can absolve one from a duty, with a duty no compromise is possible.
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 12.
These hideous Bastilles resemble that old human justice which possessed precisely as much conscience as they have, which condemned Socrates and Jesus, and which also takes and leaves, seizes and releases, absolves and condemns, liberates and incarcerates, opens and shuts, at the will of whatever hand manipulates the bolt from outside.
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 13.
Napoleon was absolved by his genius.
Vocabulary in context: absolve -- Example 14.
She confessed to him, and he absolved her from her sins.
