Explore Absolve through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like forgive or justify. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Absolve meaning
- To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).
- To resolve; to explain; to solve.
- To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.
Absolve vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Absolve
- The main meaning on this page is: To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.). | To resolve; to explain; to solve. | To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.
- Useful related words include: forgive, justify, free, blame.
- Possible Dutch translations are: vrijspreken, vergeven, absolveren.
- In the example corpus, absolve often appears in combinations such as: to absolve, not absolve, absolve the.
Context around Absolve
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Absolve
- In this selection, "absolve" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, parties, rulings, themselves, thomas and moore stand out and add context to how "absolve" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include attempt to absolve hamas of and did not absolve trump of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "absolve" sits close to words such as acorns, acrobatics and acura, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with absolve
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Trump set the stage but that doesn’t absolve Biden of blame. (12 words)
Can these parties absolve themselves of all the wrongs that happened during the MDA government regime? (16 words)
A lot of offensive football today is ugly and sloppy, not to absolve the Steelers of anything. (17 words)
Although Rodgers had a down year last season—his quarterback rating was his lowest-ever as a starter—many observers were quick to absolve him of most blame: after all, Green Bay lost its top receiver, Davante Adams, to a trade with the Las Vegas Raiders. (46 words)
Megan put a stop to the speculation in an comment that she wrote on Sunday February 19. “How me making a joke in order to absolve this girl of a hurtful accusation somehow turned into a confirmation of it – I will never understand,” she remarked. (45 words)
I guess after the 2022 midterms and the less-intense-than-expected effect of inflation on voting choices, I’m skeptical frustrated voters would absolve the GOP for its role in a default and vote for the party’s presidential candidate. (41 words)
Can these parties absolve themselves of all the wrongs that happened during the MDA government regime? (16 words)
In fact, the hatred became the answer to their own intersectional dilemmas: If “whites” are the root of all evil, how to absolve their own white guilt? (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
This is just another case of parents trying to absolve their selves of guilt and absolve their adult child of personal responsibility.
Although Rodgers had a down year last season—his quarterback rating was his lowest-ever as a starter—many observers were quick to absolve him of most blame: after all, Green Bay lost its top receiver, Davante Adams, to a trade with the Las Vegas Raiders.
Any “hypocritical double standards” could only implicate others, never absolve Thomas — at least without invoking the “well, Jamie’s mom let’s her do it” doctrine.
Can these parties absolve themselves of all the wrongs that happened during the MDA government regime?
I guess after the 2022 midterms and the less-intense-than-expected effect of inflation on voting choices, I’m skeptical frustrated voters would absolve the GOP for its role in a default and vote for the party’s presidential candidate.
I’ll absolve Moore and put this on Harris, even though he’s in a tough matchup (this happened to him in Week 12 against Hendrickson, some tough breaks).
In the same vein as Pelosi, California’s governor volunteered reparations to absolve the nation of its inherited guilt.
Johnson said the justices are doing what they can “to try to absolve themselves of the wrongdoing that they’re clearly practicing,” said Johnson.
Marvel often goes out of their way to redeem her and absolve her, but being a villain often makes Scarlet Witch more interesting than when she's a vanilla-flavored hero.
Megan put a stop to the speculation in an comment that she wrote on Sunday February 19. “How me making a joke in order to absolve this girl of a hurtful accusation somehow turned into a confirmation of it – I will never understand,” she remarked.
Notably, it did not absolve Trump of the obligation to tell the court by today if he intends to attend the trial.
The “Run It!” singer also clarified that he is not Muslim or Jewish, as if that would absolve him of any bigotry claims.
Trump set the stage but that doesn’t absolve Biden of blame.
A lot of offensive football today is ugly and sloppy, not to absolve the Steelers of anything.
Concurrent with the attempt to delegitimize the case that there was a rash of sexual abuse and rape is an attempt to absolve Hamas of any wrongdoing.
He said whether Mr Kadir was there in person was "irrelevant" because it didn't absolve him of his duty of responsibility for what is sold on his premises.
In fact, the hatred became the answer to their own intersectional dilemmas: If “whites” are the root of all evil, how to absolve their own white guilt?
None of these rulings “absolve him of anything,” said Mary McCord, a law professor at Georgetown University.
People only say it's those things because they don't want to talk about what *actually* happened and want to absolve their complicity with what is still happening.
There is nothing he can say tonight that can absolve him from letting 15 million people into our Country illegally.
Common combinations with absolve
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: