assoil
Americanverb (used with object)
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to absolve; acquit; pardon.
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to atone for.
verb
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to absolve; set free
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to atone for
Other Word Forms
- assoilment noun
Etymology
Origin of assoil
1250–1300; Middle English asoilen < Anglo-French asoiler, Old French asoilier, variant of asoldre < Latin absolvere to absolve
Example Sentences
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This question is but a vanity; It longeth not to me Such questions to assoil.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew
William, bien aime," 15 said the King, "it is true that Hilda, whom the saints assoil, is of kingly blood, though not of our kingly line.
From Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
And then he kneeled down on his knee, and prayed the Bishop to shrive him and assoil him.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
Assoilzie, as-soil′yē, v.i. to free one accused from a charge: a Scots law term, the same as the archaic assoil, to absolve from sin, discharge, pardon.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
If seas of holy wells could assoil me, I should be pure enough.
From The Prince and the Page; a story of the last crusade by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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