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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A tolerable scattering on the floor I hail as being too probably my own, and if the candlestick be not removed, I assoil myself.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
And so Sir Launcelot penance made, And worked at servile toil; And prayed the Bishop of Canterbury His sins for to assoil.
From Songs and Satires by Masters, Edgar Lee
Mother, as I promised to assoil thy doubt, Here I give thee an hundred pieces of gold.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew
And then he kneeled down on his knees, and prayed the bishop to shrive him and assoil him.
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by Stone, J. M. (Jean Mary)
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 Hutton, Edward
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