verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
responsibility
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Everyone but his father; whose condition, whose very nature absolved him of responsibility .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But now all of us have been absolved of ever considering it again.
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But there may be cases where the landlord absolves his tenant from performance in ways which release the other covenantors.
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For all that, the teacher can hardly be absolved from the attempt to clarify his own mind.
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For Jason is proving, albeit from his grave, that death does not absolve bias.
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He had provided a father-confessor figure to absolve the youngster's sins and absorb his phobias.
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Oppenheimer seems to have absolved himself for lack of special expertise in ethics.