absolve
verb (used with object)
to free from guilt or blame or their consequences.
will absolve
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future tenseof absolve.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“History will absolve me,” Castro said in a famous speech defending himself after his failed 1953 attack on a military barracks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Tuz told Reuters he plans to challenge his dismissal and says he hopes Ukrainian authorities will absolve him when they understand what happened to him.
From Reuters ● Sep. 15, 2022
The river also takes in the ashes and remains of those whose last rites are performed on its banks, in the belief it will absolve one’s sins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2017
President Obama, whose legacy includes the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Havana that were severed that same year, offered a bookend to one of Castro’s most famous lines — “History will absolve me!”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2016
“Confess, then, and I will absolve you,” I say, trying to sound like Father Alphonse, and we both laugh.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
