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unabˈsolved, ppl. a. [un-1 8. Cf. G. unabsolviert.] 1. Not absolved. Also const. of.
1611Florio, Innassolto, vnabsolued. 1681Baxter Acc. Sherlocke iv. 186 Who shall Absolve the Patriarchs, Primates,..&c.? Must they be Unabsolved till a General Council do it? 1765Sterne Tr. Shandy vii. xxiv, If we are ravished and die unabsolved of them. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xliii, Slay him not,..unshriven and unabsolved. 1844Lady G. C. Fullerton Ellen Middleton III. xxi. 68 [I] always let him draw near to the altar alone; for, unforgiven, unabsolved, unreconciled, I dared not approach it. †2. Unsettled, undecided. Obs. An alteration of unabsoiled ppl. a.
1721Strype Eccl. Mem. I. 33 So that doubt remaineth not [sic] unabsolved. |