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How to use the word absolved in a Sentence?

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We can be absolved for falling for what we found in place but not for failing to rise up for what we deserve.

Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

The loss of that property would certainly be a legal disqualification, impediment or other legal disadvantage, of which I have now been absolved by the governor, and therefore the state no longer has any legitimate reason to hold the property.

Mark McCloskey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[W]henever the Legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common Refuge, which God hath provided for all Men, against Force and Violence. Whensoever therefore the Legislative shall transgress this fundamental Rule of Society; and either by Ambition, Fear, Folly or Corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other an Absolute Power over the Lives, Liberties, and Estates of the People; By this breach of Trust they forfeit the Power, the People had put into their hands, for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty.

John Locke

added by Normando
3 years ago

The interpretation of my remarks as though I absolved the Nazis of even one ounce of responsibility for the Holocaust is absurd.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This has been an incredibly difficult time for many people. I cannot apologize enough for the distraction this has caused my family, my teammates, this incredible organization, and of course our fans, while I have too much respect for the legal process to comment on an ongoing matter, I am confident that once all the facts are brought to light, I will be absolved of having done nothing wrong.

Patrick Kane

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We believe that being buried in Israel is important because all of your sins are then absolved.

Alon Edri

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre pg. 61

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.

Publilius Syrus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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