Crossword-Solution: ABSOLUTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Absolution | n. | An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. |
| Absolution | n. | An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. |
| Absolution | n. | The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven. |
| Absolution | n. | An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication. |
| Absolution | n. | The form of words by which a penitent is absolved. |
| Absolution | n. | Delivery, in speech. |
We have 62 clues for the answer “ABSOLUTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the condition of being formally forgiven by a priest in the sacrament of penance | 1 answer |
| Washing ritual incorporates true forgiveness (10) | 1 answer |
| '03 Muse album | 1 answer |
| Get-ripped-quick scheme for the midriff? | 1 answer |
| exculpation | 5 answers |
| impunity | 10 answers |
| atonement | 11 answers |
| Pardoner | 22 answers |
| Immunity | 22 answers |
| extenuation | 40 answers |
| apologia | 43 answers |
| Vindication | 43 answers |
| ratiocination | 43 answers |
| exoneration | 44 answers |
| repentance | 45 answers |
| Life after death? | 45 answers |
| Rationale | 47 answers |
| Reparation | 49 answers |
| rationalization | 50 answers |
| Mercy! | 51 answers |
| plea | 52 answers |
| forgiveness | 54 answers |
| amends | 54 answers |
| Intention | 55 answers |
| Justification | 55 answers |
| apology | 57 answers |
| Rationalism | 59 answers |
| clemency | 59 answers |
| defence | 60 answers |
| Rationalisation | 60 answers |
| Logic | 60 answers |
| Acumen | 62 answers |
| amnesty | 62 answers |
| Sanity | 62 answers |
| Giving | 63 answers |
| Impetus | 64 answers |
| Incentive | 65 answers |
| Excuse | 66 answers |
| Aim | 68 answers |
| Explanation | 68 answers |
| confession | 69 answers |
| remission | 69 answers |
| Motive | 69 answers |
| Mind | 69 answers |
| Reasoning | 70 answers |
| indulgence | 70 answers |
| Objective | 70 answers |
| Acquittal | 71 answers |
| clearance | 72 answers |
| pretext | 78 answers |
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Sentences with ABSOLUTION (5)
His free and jovial temper, and the readiness with which he granted absolution from all ordinary delinquencies, rendered him a favourite among the nobility and principal gentry, to several of whom he was allied by birth, being of a distinguished Norman family.
She stood in the middle of the room with a face of mildness bent upon me, and her look of forgiveness, of absolution, made her angelic.
Hence the expression originated, which was employed in the pulpit when public absolution was announced to the people: Prolong O God, my life, until I shall make satisfaction for my sins and amend my life.
Now, repentance consists properly of these two parts: One is contrition, that is, terrors smiting the conscience through the knowledge of sin; the other is faith, which is born of the Gospel, or of absolution, and believes that for Christ's sake, sins are forgiven, comforts the conscience, and delivers it from terrors.
There is no absolution from duty.” “Grace of God! Hear you, Senora! Hear you the rebellious and disobedient one! She has defied me to my face! She is near to being anathema! She is not your daughter! She is bewitched.
Quotes with ABSOLUTION (3)
A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.
Maria, lonely prostitute on a street of pain, You, at least, hail me and speak to me While a thousand others ignore my face. You offer me an hour of love, And your fees are not as costly as most. You are the madonna of the lonely, The first-born daughter in a world of pain. You do not turn fat men aside, Or trample on the stuttering, shy ones, You are the meadow where desperate men Can find a moment's comfort. Men have paid more to their wives To know a bit of peace And could…
Manifest in this trade (commercial sale of indulgences via bankers) at the same time was a pernicious tendency in the Roman Catholic system, for the trade in indulgences was not an excess or an abuse but the direct consequence of the nomistic degradation of the gospel. That the Reformation started with Luther’s protest against this traffic in indulgences proves its religious origin and evangelical character. At issue here was nothing less than the essential character of the g…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, Rock & Roll, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2006–2019).