absolution

IPA: æbsʌɫˈuʃʌn

(ecclesiastical) An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
The forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
(civil law, obsolete) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring an accused person innocent.
(obsolete) Delivery, in speech.

Examples of "absolution" in Sentences

And the thing about absolution is you have to earn it.
Nor do I mean someone I must find to gain absolution from sin.
Thus Obama has become the white liberals 'Christ, offering absolution from the Sin of Being White.
I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins.
This white stone is absolution from the guilt of sin, alluding to the ancient custom of giving a white stone to those acquitted on trial and a black stone to those condemned.
In 1593, the gates of Paris were opened to him; and when, in 1595, he obtained absolution from the Pope on condition of proclaiming the Council of Trent in France, the last remnant of the League was reconciled to him, and the religious wars were at an end.
The residents of Avignon had been invaded by hostile violence: at the head of thirty thousand robbers, a hero had extorted ransom and absolution from the vicar of Christ and the sacred college; and the maxim of the French warriors, to spare the people and plunder the church, was a new heresy of the most dangerous import.
And one day a week comes the priest, and that day me and my sister wasn't allowed to enter the dinin'-room all the mornin ', where the breakfast things was and where the priest was what he useter call confessin' the young ladies of their sins and givin ''em what he called absolution, summat like that, for all they'd been doin' wrong since last time.