English words for 'someone who grants absolution'
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noun
- An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
- The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
- the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
- (ecclesiastical) An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
- The forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
- the condition of being formally forgiven by a priest in the sacrament of penance
verb
- (transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- (transitive, typography) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
- (transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.
- (reflexive) To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.
- (law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
- (law) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
- (transitive) To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
- (transitive) To be a good reason behind a normally-unacceptable action; to warrant.
- show to be right by providing justification or proof
- adjust the spaces between words
- (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin
noun
- One who pardons.
- (law) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right formerly held; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit
- One who remits, or makes remittance.
verb
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- remove the charge from
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- release from military service
- complete or carry out
- become empty or void of its content
- free from obligations or duties
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- eliminate (a substance)
- go off or discharge
- cause to go off
- pour forth or release
noun
- (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The process of flowing out.
- (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
- (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The process of removing the load borne by something.
- (law) Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
- The material thus released.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the sudden giving off of energy
- the act of discharging a gun
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- a substance that is emitted or released
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- the act of venting
verb
- (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
- (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
- (ambitransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
- (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
- (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
- (transitive) To leave (a place).
- (ambitransitive) To stop, give up (an activity). [(usually) with gerund; or with verbal noun]
- give up or retire from a position
- put an end to a state or an activity
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
- turn away from; give up
- go away or leave
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adj
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verb
noun
- a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
- (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that they could not have committed the crime in question
- (law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.
- (sometimes proscribed) An excuse, especially one used to avoid responsibility or blame.
verb
- (particularly in canon law) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
- To issue, distribute, or give out.
- To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
- To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- give or apply (medications)
- grant a dispensation; grant an exemption
verb
- To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
- (transitive) To forgive; to pardon; to overlook.
- (transitive) To provide an excuse for; to justify.
- (transitive) To allow to leave, or release from any obligation.
- accept an excuse for
- ask for permission to be released from an engagement
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- grant exemption or release to
- excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with
- serve as a reason or cause or justification of
noun
- (often with preceding negative adjective, especially sorry, poor, or lame) An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality.
- (countable, uncountable) An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.
- (law) A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.
- a poor example
- a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
- a note explaining an absence
verb
- grant remission of a sin to
- (transitive, theology) To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.
- (transitive, law) To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.
- let off the hook
- (transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.
- (transitive, theology) To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin.
- (transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).
- (transitive) To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.
verb
- (law) To release a person under such guarantee.
- (Australia, New Zealand, usually with up) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
- (intransitive, informal) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person). [with on ‘someone’]
- (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
- To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
- To secure the head of a cow during milking.
- (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
- (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
- (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
- (rare) To confine.
- To set free; to deliver; to release.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave or exit abruptly.
- release after a security has been paid
- secure the release of (someone) by providing security
- remove (water) from a vessel with a container
- deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period
- empty (a vessel) by bailing
noun
- (law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
- A person who bails water out of a boat.
- A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
- A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
- A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
- (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
- (countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
- A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
- (law, UK) The person providing such payment.
- (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
- A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
- the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial)
- (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
noun
- One under the direction of a confessor.
- One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
- One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
- (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
adj
noun
- the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- a payment of money sent to a person in another place
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
- (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.
- (law) A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.
- An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.
- (spectroscopy) Reflection or back-scattering of light by a material; (to send back)
- A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
- A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt.
- (law) A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour.
verb
noun
- An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
- Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
- a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment
- a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
- the formal act of liberating someone
verb
noun
- (law) A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death.
- (musical theatre) A short period of spoken dialogue in an otherwise sung-through musical.
- (law) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
- A brief interval of rest or relief.
- a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
- a pause for relaxation
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
- a pause from doing something (as work)
verb
noun
- (historical) The act of releasing someone from debt or other obligation; acquittance.
- (law) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process.
- (rare) Avoidance of danger; deliverance.
- Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends.
- a judgment of not guilty
noun
- an act exempting someone
- a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of their status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.)
- immunity from an obligation or duty
- A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
- Freedom from a defect or weakness.
- An act of exempting.
- The state of being exempt; immunity.
noun
- an act exempting someone
- the quality of being unaffected by something
- (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- the state of not being susceptible
- (medicine) Protective resistance against disease.
- (in games and competitions) An exemption given to a player from losing or being withdrawn from play.
- (law) An exemption from prosecution.
- (countable) A resistance to a specific thing.
- (religion) An exemption from penance.
- (law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services.
adj
- (of a law, rule, vow, etc.) Subject to dispensation; possible to relax, exempt from, or annul.
- Capable of being dispensed.
- Able to be done without; easily replaced.
- (biochemistry, nutrition, of an amino acid) Not essential to be taken in as part of an organism's diet, as it can be synthesized de novo.
- capable of being dispensed with or done without
noun
noun
- An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
- The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
- the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
- (ecclesiastical) An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
- The forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
- the condition of being formally forgiven by a priest in the sacrament of penance
noun
- One who pardons.
- (law) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right formerly held; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit
- One who remits, or makes remittance.
noun
- One under the direction of a confessor.
- One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
- One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
- (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
adj
noun
- the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- a payment of money sent to a person in another place
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
- (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.
- (law) A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.
- An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.
- (spectroscopy) Reflection or back-scattering of light by a material; (to send back)
- A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
- A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt.
- (law) A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour.
verb
noun
- An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
- Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
- a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment
- a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
- the formal act of liberating someone
verb
noun
- (law) A reprieve, especially from a sentence of death.
- (musical theatre) A short period of spoken dialogue in an otherwise sung-through musical.
- (law) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
- A brief interval of rest or relief.
- a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
- a pause for relaxation
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
- a pause from doing something (as work)
verb
noun
- (historical) The act of releasing someone from debt or other obligation; acquittance.
- (law) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process.
- (rare) Avoidance of danger; deliverance.
- Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends.
- a judgment of not guilty
noun
- an act exempting someone
- a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of their status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.)
- immunity from an obligation or duty
- A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
- Freedom from a defect or weakness.
- An act of exempting.
- The state of being exempt; immunity.
noun
- an act exempting someone
- the quality of being unaffected by something
- (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- the state of not being susceptible
- (medicine) Protective resistance against disease.
- (in games and competitions) An exemption given to a player from losing or being withdrawn from play.
- (law) An exemption from prosecution.
- (countable) A resistance to a specific thing.
- (religion) An exemption from penance.
- (law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services.
verb
- (transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- (transitive, typography) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
- (transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.
- (reflexive) To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.
- (law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
- (law) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
- (transitive) To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
- (transitive) To be a good reason behind a normally-unacceptable action; to warrant.
- show to be right by providing justification or proof
- adjust the spaces between words
- (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin
verb
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- remove the charge from
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- release from military service
- complete or carry out
- become empty or void of its content
- free from obligations or duties
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- eliminate (a substance)
- go off or discharge
- cause to go off
- pour forth or release
noun
- (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The process of flowing out.
- (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
- (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The process of removing the load borne by something.
- (law) Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
- The material thus released.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the sudden giving off of energy
- the act of discharging a gun
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- a substance that is emitted or released
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- the act of venting
verb
- (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
- (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
- (ambitransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
- (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
- (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
- (transitive) To leave (a place).
- (ambitransitive) To stop, give up (an activity). [(usually) with gerund; or with verbal noun]
- give up or retire from a position
- put an end to a state or an activity
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
- turn away from; give up
- go away or leave
adj
noun
verb
noun
- a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
- (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that they could not have committed the crime in question
- (law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.
- (sometimes proscribed) An excuse, especially one used to avoid responsibility or blame.
verb
- (particularly in canon law) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
- To issue, distribute, or give out.
- To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
- To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- give or apply (medications)
- grant a dispensation; grant an exemption
verb
- To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
- (transitive) To forgive; to pardon; to overlook.
- (transitive) To provide an excuse for; to justify.
- (transitive) To allow to leave, or release from any obligation.
- accept an excuse for
- ask for permission to be released from an engagement
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- grant exemption or release to
- excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with
- serve as a reason or cause or justification of
noun
- (often with preceding negative adjective, especially sorry, poor, or lame) An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality.
- (countable, uncountable) An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.
- (law) A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.
- a poor example
- a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
- a note explaining an absence
verb
- grant remission of a sin to
- (transitive, theology) To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.
- (transitive, law) To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.
- let off the hook
- (transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.
- (transitive, theology) To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin.
- (transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).
- (transitive) To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.
verb
- (law) To release a person under such guarantee.
- (Australia, New Zealand, usually with up) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
- (intransitive, informal) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person). [with on ‘someone’]
- (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
- To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
- To secure the head of a cow during milking.
- (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
- (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
- (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
- (rare) To confine.
- To set free; to deliver; to release.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave or exit abruptly.
- release after a security has been paid
- secure the release of (someone) by providing security
- remove (water) from a vessel with a container
- deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period
- empty (a vessel) by bailing
noun
- (law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
- A person who bails water out of a boat.
- A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
- A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
- A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
- (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
- (countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
- A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
- (law, UK) The person providing such payment.
- (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
- A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
- the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial)
- (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
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noun
adj
- (of a law, rule, vow, etc.) Subject to dispensation; possible to relax, exempt from, or annul.
- Capable of being dispensed.
- Able to be done without; easily replaced.
- (biochemistry, nutrition, of an amino acid) Not essential to be taken in as part of an organism's diet, as it can be synthesized de novo.
- capable of being dispensed with or done without