n
An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
v
(transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.
v
To pay the penalty; to atone.
v
(transitive) To declare or find innocent or not guilty.
n
Obsolete spelling of acquittal. [(now rare) The act of fulfilling the duties (of a given role, obligation etc.).]
n
(now rare) The act of fulfilling the duties (of a given role, obligation etc.).
n
(now rare) The acquittal of one's duties; the carrying out of fulfilment of a job or role.
v
To provide an excuse for.
n
(obsolete) Alleviation, relief.
v
(transitive) To punish; to make an exaction.
v
To absolve or release (someone) from blame or sin; to forgive, to pardon.
v
(archaic) To absolve or release (someone) from blame or sin; to forgive, to pardon.
v
(proscribed) To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.
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(intransitive, obsolete) To consent, agree.
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(law) A legal defense made when an accuser had forgiven or chosen to ignore an act about which they were legally complaining. ᵂᵖ
v
(transitive) To forgive, excuse or overlook (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).
v
(transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.
v
(intransitive) To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk
v
(US, historical) To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.
v
To decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to practise self-denial.
v
To deny, as a claim; to refuse.
v
Obsolete spelling of disclaim [To renounce all claim to; to deny ownership of or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.]
v
(transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exonerate.
n
The act of disendorsing; withdrawal of endorsement.
v
to take away insurance of; to uninsure
v
(UK, law, transitive) To excuse for failure to appear in court.
v
Obsolete form of essoin. [(UK, law, transitive) To excuse for failure to appear in court.]
n
The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime.
n
One who exculpates, or frees from blame.
n
The act of excusing or of being excused.
n
(obsolete) The act of offering an excuse or apology, or the fact of being excused; an excuse, a defence.
v
(transitive) To forgive; to pardon.
v
(transitive, law) To seize and detain by law.
v
(transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.
n
An act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.
adj
That serves to expiate.
adj
Of or pertaining to expiation.
v
(transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
v
(transitive) To pardon; to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment, retribution, or compensation.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive) To absolve somebody completely for a past wrongdoing; to pardon with neither resentment nor a view to retribution.
n
The act by which somebody is forsaken; an abandonment.
v
(transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
n
The removal of a discouraging stimulus associated with a particular behaviour with the result that it is more likely to be repeated.
n
An apologist; one who justifies or excuses atrocities by citing extenuating circumstances or positive aspects.
v
(transitive) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
n
(Roman Catholicism) An indulgence that remits part of a person’s sins, and thus part of their time in purgatory.
v
(transitive) To subject to a penalty, especially for the infringement of a rule or regulation.
n
An act requiring expiation.
n
The act of propitiating; placation, atonement, similar to expiation but with the added concept of appeasement of anger.
v
(transitive) To forbid or prohibit.
n
(obsolete) recompense; atonement; retribution
v
Obsolete form of reprieve. [(transitive) To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.]
n
The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
v
To take back an apology, to not apologize.
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(transitive, rare) To reverse the condemnation of; to condemn no longer.
v
(transitive) To remove the sin or guilt from; pardon; excuse.
v
(transitive) To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
n
The act of vindicating or the state of being vindicated.
adj
Promoting or producing vindication.
v
(text messaging) Informal spelling of excuse. [(transitive) To forgive; to pardon.]
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