Absolve vs Disengage - What's the difference?
absolve | disengage |
To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.).
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(obsolete) To resolve; to explain; to solve.
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To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt.
(legal) To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for.
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(theology) To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to.
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(theology) To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin.
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(obsolete) To finish; to accomplish.
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To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.
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(ambitransitive) To release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.
{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5
, Disengaging myself then from his embrace, I made him sensible of the reasons there were for his present leaving me; on which, though reluctantly, he put on his cloaths with as little expedition, however, as he could help, wantonly interrupting himself, between whiles, with kisses, touches and embraces I could not refuse myself to. }}
* 1982 , Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything
As verbs the difference between absolve and disengage
is that absolve is to set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc) while disengage is (ambitransitive) to release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.As a noun disengage is
(fencing) a circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry.absolve
English
Verb
(absolv)- You will absolve a subject from his allegiance.
- and the work begun, how soon absolv’d ,
Usage notes
* Normally followed by the word from . * Normally followed by the word from .Synonyms
* (set free) excuse, exempt, free, release * (pronounce free or give absolution) acquit, exculpate, exonerate, pardon, remit, vindicate * remitDerived terms
* absolverReferences
disengage
English
Verb
(disengag)- Ford still had his hand stuck out. Arthur looked at it with incomprehension.
"Shake," prompted Ford.
Arthur did, nervously at first, as if it might turn out to be a fish. Then he grasped it vigorously with both hands in an overwhelming flood of relief. He shook it and shook it.
After a while Ford found it necessary to disengage .