absolve

1. (transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).Examples: "You will absolve a subject from his allegiance."; "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."; "The Committee divided, and Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen."Synonyms: excuse, exempt, free, releasetransitive

2. (transitive, obsolete) To resolve; to explain; to solve.Examples: "1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 331-332, […] he that can monsters tame, laboures atchive, riddles absolve […]"; "we ſhall not abſolve the doubt."obsoletetransitive

3. (transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.Examples: "A Heretic may see the truth and seek redemption. He may be forgiven his past and will be absolved in death. A Traitor can never be forgiven. A Traitor will never find peace in this world or the next. There is nothing as wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor."Synonyms: acquit, exculpate, exonerate, pardon, remit, vindicatetransitive

4. (transitive, law) To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.Examples: "Abſolves the juſt, and dooms the guilty ſouls."transitive

5. (transitive, theology) To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.Examples: "To make confession and to be absolved."transitive

6. (transitive, theology) To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin.Examples: "In his name I abſolve your perjury and ſanctify your arms: follow my footſteps in the paths of glory and ſalvation; and if ſtill ye have ſcruples, devolve on my head the puniſhment and the ſin."transitive