give absolution

Who shall give me absolution for a deed I hate?

The person wronged is the judge, the only one who may give absolution.

Only his brother, who's a priest, can give him absolution.

Confess; you know I have the right of giving absolution.

Those words are an attempt to give him respectability and absolution.

By 1256 inquisitors were given absolution if they used instruments of torture.

He had been given absolution by someone, and I would not undo it.

Then she said: "He did take it off, as usual, immediately after he'd given me absolution.

The larger issue, he said, is the church's role "in giving absolution to a man who's committed capital crimes."

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.