Forgive vs Absolution - What's the difference?
forgive | absolution |
To pardon, to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment.
To accord forgiveness.
(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 a verb forgive
is to pardon, to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment.As a noun absolution is
absolution.forgive
English
Verb
- Only the brave know how to forgive'''...A coward never '''forgave ; it is not in his nature. -
Derived terms
* *absolution
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Noun
(en noun)- (Shipley)
- Government ... granting absolution to the nation.
- (Ben Jonson)