What is the difference between exempt and absolve?
exempt | absolve | Synonyms |
Free from a duty or obligation.
* Dryden
(of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
(obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
One who has been released from something.
(historical) A type of French police officer.
* 1840 , (William Makepeace Thackeray), ‘Cartouche’, The Paris Sketch Book :
(UK) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.
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.
Absolve is a synonym of exempt.
In transitive terms the difference between exempt and absolve
is that exempt is to grant (someone) freedom or immunity {{term|from}} while absolve is to pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.As an adjective exempt
is free from a duty or obligation.As a noun exempt
is one who has been released from something.exempt
English
Adjective
(-)- In their country all women are exempt from military service.
- His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.
- 'Tis laid on all, not any one exempt .
- corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry
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Derived terms
* tax-exemptNoun
(en noun)- with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].
absolve
English
Verb
(absolv)- You will absolve a subject from his allegiance.
- and the work begun, how soon absolv’d ,