APage 35
- English Word Absoluteness Definition The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
- English Word Absolution Definition An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
- English Word Absolution Definition An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent.
- English Word Absolution Definition The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.
- English Word Absolution Definition An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication.
- English Word Absolution Definition The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
- English Word Absolution Definition Delivery, in speech.
- English Word Absolutism Definition The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
- English Word Absolutism Definition Doctrine of absolute decrees.
- English Word Absolutist Definition One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
- English Word Absolutist Definition One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute.
- English Word Absolutist Definition Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.
- English Word Absolutistic Definition Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.
- English Word Absolutory Definition Serving to absolve; absolving.
- English Word Absolvable Definition That may be absolved.
- English Word Absolvatory Definition Conferring absolution; absolutory.
- English Word Absolve Definition To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.
- English Word Absolve Definition To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.
- English Word Absolve Definition To finish; to accomplish.
- English Word Absolve Definition To resolve or explain.