absolve• For Jason is proving, albeit from his grave, that death does not absolvebias.• For all that, the teacher can hardly be absolved from the attempt to clarify his own mind.• Oppenheimer seems to have absolved himself for lack of special expertise in ethics.• But there may be cases where the landlordabsolves his tenant from performance in ways which release the other covenantors.• But now all of us have been absolved of ever considering it again.• He had provided a father-confessor figure to absolve the youngster's sins and absorb his phobias.
Originabsolve
(1400-1500)Latinabsolvere, from ab-“away” + solvere“to loosen”