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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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 William Carew Hazlitt
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
If seas of holy wells could assoil me, I should be pure enough.
From The Prince and the Page; a story of the last crusade by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
Against my lusts I ever war, in vain, I think on my ill deeds with shame and pain; I trust Thou wilt assoil me of my sins, But even so, my shame must still remain.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
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