absolvitor

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UK/æbˈsɒl.vɪ.tɔː/US/æbˈsɑl.və.tɚ/US/æbˈzɑl.və.tɚ/US/æbˈsɑl.və.tɔɹ/

noun

A decision or decree made by a court in favour of the defendant in a given action; dismissal.

Opposite
condemnator
OriginLatin absolvitor →
Scrabble 15
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Meanings

nounabsolvitor (plural absolvitors)

plural absolvitors

  1. Scots lawA decision or decree made by a court in favour of the defendant in a given action; dismissal.

    Pitmedden purſues Seaton of Menzies as Repreſenting his Father, who was one of the Purſuers Brothers Tutors, for his Fathers Intromiſſion with the Pupils Means, who alleadged Abſolvitor.

    1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
condemnator

Origin

  1. Latinabsolvitor
  2. Englishabsolvitor

Borrowed from Latin absolvitor (literally “let him be acquitted”), the third-person singular future passive imperative form of absolvō (“to absolve, acquit, or declare innocent”). Compare absolutory.

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APA

absolvitor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/absolvitor

MLA

“absolvitor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/absolvitor. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “absolvitor,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/absolvitor.

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