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absolve from guilt

To consider innocent, clear of all suspicion, or pardon from any cause of guilt. The knights of the crusades committed many atrocities in their campaign, but they were absolved from guilt by the heads of the church.

absolved from guilt

Considered innocent, cleared of all suspicion, or pardoned from any cause of guilt. The knights of the crusades committed many atrocities in their campaign, but they were regarded as absolved from guilt because of their religious patronage.

absolve (one) from

To declare that someone is free from blame or responsibility for something. The evidence that the defense attorney presented in court convinced the jury to absolve his client from the crime. I know you're sorry. I absolve you from your guilt, son.

absolve (one) of

To declare that someone is free from blame or responsibility for something. Once Betty saw the security footage of a different employee stealing money from the cash register, she absolved Jacob of the crime. I know you're sorry. I absolve you of your guilt, son.

absolve someone from something

and absolve someone of something

to prove that an accused person is innocent of something; to demonstrate that someone is not responsible for something. Bob attempted to absolve himself of the crime.

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Miner, who believes that historical consciousness is the necessary premise of any genealogical project, and, following Nietzsche, makes a sharp distinction between historical spirit and historical scholarship, indirectly absolves Vico's questionable scholarship and condemns American philosophers for their lack of Historismus.

Robert C. Miner. Vico: Genealogist of Modernity

Moreover, blaming the Israelis, as the Guardian is wont to do, is an exercise in scapegoating that absolves terrorists as well as much of the Arab world: Recall that when Jordan and Egypt held the West Bank and the Gaza Strip they did not mention Palestinian statehood.

Correction, please!

And in "setting Sam up" Thomson obviously imagines it absolves him from being a two-timing rat.

Carole Malone column: He bought her a flat? For rat, read rich rat..

Costa Ricans who undergo sterilization must sign an authorization that absolves doctors and health institutions from any responsibility (Zenit Daily News).

Sterilization attacks the poor

Specifically, the letter denounced the Accurate Accounting Standards Certification Act of 1997 (S 1560), which essentially absolves banks from any FASB statement on derivatives in many circumstances.

Derivatives: time to take sides

'The DOJ resolution absolves us and (it is) the best vindication for us,' Faeldon's lawyer Jose Dino told reporters on Thursday.

DOJ clearing Faeldon is 'the best vindication,' says camp

In Noble's words, "Lone inventors could either try to fight for their rights within 'no man's land' or join the dominant forces which occupied the fields around it." Gladwell gives those "dominant forces" credit for being an alternative to the battleground, but he apparently absolves them of blame for creating the war zone in the first place.

The Secret History of Television: corporate power, patent law, and lone inventors. (Culture & Reviews)

In the report the OCT, made up of Lanarkshire Health Board and North Lanarkshire Council officials, absolves itself of any blame for delays in investigating the outbreak in November 1996.

E coli `cover-up' claim

In doing away with the doctrine, the Supreme Court found no basis for saying that the election of an official to a new term fully absolves the official of any administrative liability arising from an offense committed during a prior term.

Pimentel sees better-behaved officials

"In my opinion that absolves the President as far as this operation is concerned," he added.