Usage examples "absolve":
- Let them now therefore be punished as their crime requires, and do not, while you condemn the aristocracy, absolve the people. - "The History of the Peloponnesian War", Thucydides.
- I had to absolve my conscience." - "The Captives", Hugh Walpole.
- The state owes it to this defendant to absolve him before the public of the obloquy of this unfounded and cruel accusation. - "The Bondboy", George W. (George Washington) Ogden.