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
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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 William Carew Hazlitt
E’er I depart I would assoil my soul of all taint.
From In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls by Clyde Osmer De Land
"Doubtless he may pardon and assoil all such in their unhappiness, forasmuch as the secret of it is with him."
From The Blue Flower by Henry Van Dyke
But, madam, it was all one thing in substance, putting you in knowledge of your uncle's death, whom God assoil, and how we stood arrested, and do yet.
From Margaret of Anjou Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
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
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