Usually means: Formal release from guilt, obligation.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word absolution:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. absolution: Merriam-Webster
  2. absolution: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. absolution: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. absolution: Collins English Dictionary
  5. absolution: Vocabulary.com
  6. Absolution, absolution: Wordnik
  7. absolution: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. absolution: Wiktionary
  9. absolution: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. absolution: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. absolution: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Absolution, absolution: Dictionary.com
  13. absolution: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Absolution (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Absolution (Muse album), Absolution (album), Absolution (audio drama), Absolution (comics), Absolution (disambiguation), Absolution (novel), Absolution (short story), Absolution: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Absolution: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. absolution: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. absolution: Rhymezone
  18. Absolution: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. absolution: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. absolution: FreeDictionary.org
  21. absolution: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. absolution: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. absolution: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. absolution: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Absolution (religious), absolution: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Absolution (religious), absolution: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Absolution: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absolution: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See absolutions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (ecclesiastical) An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
noun:  The forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
noun:  The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
noun:  An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
noun:  (civil law, obsolete) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring an accused person innocent.
noun:  (obsolete) Delivery, in speech.

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