absolver

From absolve +‎ -er.

• (US) IPA^(key): /æbˈzɑl.vɚ/, /əbˈzɑl.vɚ/

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absolver (plural absolvers)

1. Agent noun of absolve; one who absolves.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     how hast thou the heart,
     Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
     A sin-absolver, and my friend profess’d,
     To mangle me with that word ‘banished’?

   • 1684, Richard Baxter, Whether Parish Congregations Be True Christian Churches‎, London: Thomas Parkhurst, page 2:

     few men dislike the Lay-Excommunicators and Absolvers more than I do

From Latin absolvō.

• IPA^(key): /absolˈbe(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: ab‧sol‧ver
• Rhymes: -e(ɾ)

absolver

1. (transitive) to absolve

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absolver (first-person singular present absolvo, first-person singular preterite absolvín, past participle absolvido, short past participle absolto)

1. (transitive) to absolve
2. (transitive) to acquit

   Synonym: exculpar

• absolución

• “absolver”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “absolver” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• IPA^(key): /absɔlˈʋeːr/

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• Rhymes: -eːr
• Hyphenation: ab‧sol‧ver

absolver

1. imperative of absolvere

Learned borrowing from Latin absolvere.

• Hyphenation: ab‧sol‧ver

absolver (first-person singular present absolvo, first-person singular preterite absolvi, past participle absolvido)

1. to absolve
2. (law) to acquit
3. to forgive

• absolução
• absolutório

• “absolver”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin absolvere and adapted to the conjugations of the native solver.

• IPA^(key): /absolˈbeɾ/

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: ab‧sol‧ver

absolver (first-person singular present absuelvo, first-person singular preterite absolví, past participle absuelto)

1. (transitive) to absolve
2. (transitive) to acquit

• “absolver”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10