Definizione monolingua

absolve

absolve (third-person singular simple present absolves, present participle absolving, simple past and past participle absolved)

1. (transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).

   You will absolve a subject from his allegiance.

   • 1855, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume III:

     Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen.

2. (transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, sin or guilt.
3. (transitive, theology) To pronounce free or give absolution from sin.
   • 1782, Edward Gibbon, History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, volume VI:

     In his name I absolve your perjury and sanctify your arms.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To finish; to accomplish.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Second Edition, Book VII, line 94

     and the work begun, how soon / Absolv’d,

5. (transitive, obsolete) To resolve or explain.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica^[1], page x:

     We shall not absolve the doubt.

Definizione dizionario absolve

	assolvere
	set free
	obsolete: finish, accomplish
	theology: pronounce free or give absolution from sin
	pronounce free or give absolution
	To pardon or remit (a sin).

assòlvere

liberare

perdonare

prosciogliere

sciogliere

Altri significati:

(transitive, obsolete) To finish; to accomplish.

(transitive, obsolete) To resolve or explain.

(transitive, theology) To pronounce free or give absolution from sin.

(transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, sin or guilt.

(transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).