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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What harm if men who burn the midnight-oil, Weary of frame, and worn and wan of feature, Seek once a week their spirits to assoil, And snatch a glimpse of "Animated Nature?"
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton
Say to toil: Nor to seek to leave the tending of thy vines, For all the heat of the day, till it declines, And death's mild curfew shall from work assoil.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin
Into thy saving hands: Despite assoil, infirmity, mistake, My life a perfect whole thy power can make, If Thou my shards of broken purpose take Into thy hands.
From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge
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
I ask and require thee that thou assoil me from the bond of the reproof and shame, or certainly upon the earth keep me.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
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