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Absolution :: 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 :: Absolution (n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense..

Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation..

Shrift :: Shrift (n.) Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it..

Assoilment :: Assoilment (n.) Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal..

Indulgence :: Indulgence (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory..

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun..

Shrive :: Shrive (v. t.) To confess, and receive absolution; -- used reflexively..

Absolution :: Absolution (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.

Absolution :: Absolution (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent..

Shrive :: Shrive (v. t.) To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.

Absolvatory :: Absolvatory (a.) Conferring absolution; absolutory.

Absolution :: Absolution (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope..

Confessor :: Confessor (n.) A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.

Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution..

Licentiate :: Licentiate (n.) A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy..

Shrive :: Shrive (v. i.) To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession and absolution..

Confession :: Confession (n.) The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.

Absolution :: Absolution (n.) Delivery, in speech..

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