单词 | absolved |
释义 | absolvedadj.n. That has been absolved; set free; cleared of sin, offences, etc. Also as n. (with the): absolved people as a class. ΚΠ 1582 G. T. tr. R. Parsons Epist. Persecution Catholickes in Eng. 60 Yf any persone do eyther ayd or conceale..the absoluer or the absolued [Fr. celuy qui aura absouls, ou qui aura esté absouls; L. absolventem, absolutum],..he is guiltie (saith the law) of an haynouse crime. 1635 D. Dickson Short Explan. Hebrewes ix. v. 178 The purging vertue of Christ's Bloode, is joyned with the Sanctifying, and Renewing of the absolved Sinner. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 275 In case the absolved have but a feigned Repentance. 1712 J. Turner Def. Doctr. & Pract. Church Eng. 60 Dr B—'s actual Authority ascribed to Sacerdotal Absolution..pretends to Administer that Comfort to the Absolved Sinner, which yet it cannot certainly Administer. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xxi. 133 Lovelace..like an absolved confessionaire, wipes off, as he goes along, one score, to begin another. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. v. 50/2 What stranger ever saw thee, were it even an absolved Auscultator..; but must have paused to wonder! 1840 W. S. Landor Fra Rupert ii. i. 2 I would not make Infallibility Fallible, nor cross-question the absolved. 1928 L. E. Binns in C. Gore et al. New Comm. on Holy Script. (1936) 452 The experience of pardon imparts a yet deeper Faith to the absolved sinner. 1971 MLN 86 485 Religion..proposes distinctions for the good and wicked, or rather the absolved and the unabsolved. 2004 R. K. Rittgers Reformation of Keys vii. 153 If the absolved person remains without sorrow or faith..he will be damned on account of his hardness and unbelief. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1582 |
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