What is the difference between acquittal and absolution?
acquittal | absolution |
(legal) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process.
Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends.
(rare) Avoidance of danger; deliverance.
(ecclesiastical) An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
Forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
(obsolete) Delivery, in speech.
As nouns the difference between acquittal and absolution
is that acquittal is the act of fulfilling the duties (of a given role, obligation etc.) while absolution is an absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.acquittal
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(wikipedia acquittal)Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* conviction * condemnationabsolution
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Noun
(en noun)- (Shipley)
- Government ... granting absolution to the nation.
- (Ben Jonson)