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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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
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
"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
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
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 J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone
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