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But the quest for entertainment is not the absolver of all sins.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2023

That is true, because the case law simply has never dealt with lawyers tailoring their advice to yield the client's desired result: the lawyer as absolver or indulgence-seller .

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2010

Apparently the whole idea of human priesthood was proved, once and for ever, to be baseless; human mediation, in every possible form, was vehemently controverted; men were referred back to God as the sole absolver.

From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Robertson, Frederick William

SOCRATES: And is not Apollo the purifier, and the washer, and the absolver from all impurities?

From Cratylus by Jowett, Benjamin