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
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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What harm if men who burn the midnight-oil, Weary of frame, and worn and wan in feature, Seek once a-week their spirits to assoil, And snatch a glimpse of "Animated Nature"?
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
Then said Sir Reginald: But if thou assoil not the King and all other standing in the curse it shall cost thee thy life.
From England of My Heart : Spring by Edward Hutton
The fields are burdened with toil, The seas are sown with the dead, With never a hand of a priest to assoil A soul that in sin hath fled.
From My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan
The soul of Simonides lives to us in a single couplet; but that is the very stuff of Eternity, which neither fire will assoil, nor tempest peril, nor the wrath of years impair.
From Poems by George Pope Morris
She is a jolly compagnon de voyage, had been thrice to Jerusalem, and is now seeking assoil for some little sins at Canterbury.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
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