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absolve in English:

1. forgive


Please forgive me.
I've made up my mind to ask Tom to forgive me.
Is it harder to forgive or to forget?
My mother said if I eloped, she would never forgive me.
Whatever excuses he may make, I cannot forgive him.
Ha-ha-ha, pray forgive me. Please don't worry yourself about that!
Susie is so constituted that she cannot forgive and forget things.
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
For my multi-talented sister, able do anything with ease, it seems that my commonplace self is something whose existence she finds very hard to forgive.
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
She forgives Rob every time although he never shows any remorse.
Deceive me once, and I will forgive you; deceive me twice, and you're a double-crosser.
There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?
Though God may forgive, man is not therefore to forget.

2. pardon


I beg your pardon?
Pardon me?
Tom asked his girlfriend to pardon him for forgetting her birthday.
Pardon me, do you speak English?
Pardon me, is that seat taken?
Tom usually says "Pardon my French" whenever he swears.
He prostrated himself and begged my pardon.
His style (if you were to call it that) was excessively (though I run the risk of hypocrisy) parenthetical (pardon the pun).
Pardon all but thyself.
Why not apologize and ask for his pardon?
The president granted a general pardon.
Pardon me, would you explain to me the importance of this phrase?
Sorry? Pardon?
I was pardoned
The new president has pardoned political prisoners. She was granted a presidential pardon.

3. absolve


He was absolved of the responsibility of repaying the loan.
absolve of murder