absolver

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US/æbˈzɑl.vɚ/US/əbˈzɑl.vɚ/

A form of absolve — To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).

First used First attested in the late 16ᵗʰ century.Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounabsolver (plural absolvers)

plural absolvers

  1. agentAgent noun of absolve; one who absolves.First known use First attested in the late 16ᵗʰ century.

    […] few men dislike the Lay-Excommunicators and Absolvers more than I do […]

    1684, Richard Baxter, Whether Parish Congregations Be True Christian Churches, London: Thomas Parkhurst, page 2
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    […] how hast thou the heart, Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend profess’d, To mangle me with that word ‘banished’?

    c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]

Origin

From absolve + -er.

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Translations

Dutch vergiffenis schenker
  • vergiffenis schenkerone who absolves
Portuguese absolvedor
  • absolvedorone who absolves
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APA

absolver. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/absolver

MLA

“absolver.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/absolver. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “absolver,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/absolver.

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