Absolution is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABSOLUTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• remission of sins, declared officially by a priest
• formal release from guilt, obligation, or punishment
• An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
• An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent.
• The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.
• An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication.
• The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
• Delivery, in speech.
• the condition of being formally forgiven by a priest in the sacrament of penance
• the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
• remission of sins
• ecclesiastical declaration that a person's sins have been forgiven
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of absolving; a remission of sins pronounced by a priest (as in the sacrament of reconciliation)

Words related to ABSOLUTION

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Words that contain ABSOLUTION

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How to use ABSOLUTION in a sentence

• The amount of this he would carefully consider, and the people of Epinal might rest assured that it should not be too light to entitle them to the benefit of a full absolution.
• It seemed to him to be an insult to the human understanding that any man, even a pope, should grant an absolution for crime.
• This washing of the feet was spiritual, and served as a species of absolution.
• He was horrified as he reflected that he might not obtain absolution when he confessed the awful language which was addressed to him.
• The absolution was solemnly pronounced on the 17th of September, 1595, by the pope himself, from a balcony erected in St.
• He was, moreover, always anxious to get absolution from the Pope.
• Dominic said that absolution ought not to be given him, although the bystanders said that he had called for confession.
• The power of absolution therefore, belonged to the Church, and to the apostle through the Church.
• Absolution, the prerogative of our humanity, is represented by a formal act of the Church.
• If the Son of absolution be there, his absolution will rest.
• Thence you will go to church where indeed we are bound, all who sail being gathered there for general confession and absolution.
• Sometimes he softened, and looked bland, as if it would not have been beneath him to grant absolution to an emperor.
• For their delay in submitting to the Church for absolution they must wait thirty times as long as the period of their excommunication.
• She must have obtained absolution, or else it was oblivion, below.
• This suit was soone granted, in so much that the pope directed his especiall letters vnto him, conteining the same absolution in verie ample and large manner, as Matth.
• In his famous interview with the dying Lorenzo de Medici he made three demands as a condition for granting absolution.
• One would have thought that the holy man, who had admitted himself to be knowingly a receiver of stolen goods, would have made instant restitution and begged only for absolution.
• But the aforesaid three, being the acts of the penitent, stand as matter, while the priestly absolution stands as form.
• The legate, in the name of his holiness, gave the parliament and kingdom absolution, freed them from all censures, and received them again into the bosom of the church.
• You are to refuse them absolution for their sins unless they serve God.
• He made his confession and I pronounced the absolution.
• No one has the power to receive confession of sins, or to give absolution.
• The lady was on her knees entreating absolution of the Bishop, who did not heed her.
• Du Guesclin, determined to relieve them from this ban and force the Pope to grant them absolution, directed his march upon Avignon, the papal residence in France.
• This unfortunate priest was so sure he was going to die that while the torture was in progress he received absolution from a fellow priest.
• But,” he added in a despairing tone, “perhaps no one will dare to come for it is known that the Spaniards are ranging through the country, and I shall die without absolution.
• He refused point-blank, however, to give the sinner absolution until the palace was purged of the presence of de Riom and Madame de Mouchy, the arch-partners in her vices.
• Here again we are brought into a kind of repentance, and receive absolution.
• In the half-hour that I had listened to him, he had tried by all the means that religion uses and recommends to follow his calling of making converts and giving absolution.
• I begged absolution, told him that I could not possibly satisfy his claim, and sought still to evade and put off the important decision.
• The word of absolution is not for me to speak while you think of forsaking France.
• She had got her absolution from Rodney himself out of the memory of their first real talk together.

Similar words containing ABSOLU without suffix tion

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