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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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
William, bien aime," 15 said the King, "it is true that Hilda, whom the saints assoil, is of kingly blood, though not of our kingly line.
From Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
"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
And then he kneeled down on his knee, and prayed the Bishop to shrive him and assoil him.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory
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 Edgar Lee Masters
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