Freedom vs Absolution - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
(countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
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, title= Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
* Milton
Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.
(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.
Freedom is a related term of absolution.
As nouns the difference between freedom and absolution
is that freedom is (uncountable) the state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved while absolution is absolution.freedom
English
(wikipedia freedom)Noun
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
- I emboldened spake and freedom used.
Usage notes
* The phrase "freedom from" can have as an object: fear, want, hunger, pain, disease, stress, depression, debt, poverty, necessity, violence, war, advertising, addiction, etc.Synonyms
* liberty * license * exemptionAntonyms
* bondage * constraintDerived terms
* academic freedom * degree of freedom * economic freedom * financial freedom * freedom fighter * freedom fries * freedom march * freedom of assembly * freedom of association * freedom of contract * freedom of expression * freedom of movement * freedom of petition * freedom of religion * freedom of speech * freedom of the air * freedom of the press * freedom of the seas * freedom ride * freedom rider * freedom to roam * individual freedom * let freedom ring * political freedom * unfreedom * non-freedomabsolution
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Shipley)
- Government ... granting absolution to the nation.
- (Ben Jonson)