How to Use absolution in a Sentence

absolution

noun

• He asked the priest to give him absolution for his sins.
• Time will tell if that is enough to earn absolution from Leeds fans.
  — Nancy Froston, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024
• Trump's words of support for Ducey weren't an absolution, though.
  — Andrew Oxford, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2020
• The gift of absolution is given within a tribe, and rarely outside it.
  — Laila Lalami, New York Times, 26 June 2018
• Jack rings up Babe once more, hoping to convince her to grant him absolution.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2024
• Klara wants revenge — but a part of her maybe also wants oblivion and absolution.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2021
• The road to Trump begins, in some moral sense, with the absolution of Nixon.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2025
• Many women who weighed in have welcomed the message of absolution.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
• Hood gave Hosier absolution for his sins and did not confess to the crime in his final moments.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 16 June 2024
• Shrove is the past tense of shrive, which means to gain absolution of sins by confession and repentance.
  — al, 1 Mar. 2022
• Spilling blood can bring no relief, no victory—from it, there can be no escape, no absolution.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2020
• The result is an absolution of guilt, meaning the conviction is wiped out.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
• It’s based on the idea that confession and absolution are key to redemption.
  — Constance Sommer, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2022
• The point is not that the offender deserves absolution.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026
• While many people go to church and find solace, absolution or inner peace – Pratt went to church and found his wife-to-be.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
• At this point, the deed is too old for relevance, but too recent for the type of absolution Colbert sought to grant.
  — Daniel D’addario, Time, 17 Sep. 2017
• There’s the voice of a father in those 2,000 pages, a father who can’t find absolution.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• Sometimes knowing what’s the right thing to do is impossible, and so is absolution.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
• But his sense of questing—whether for some kind of spiritual absolution or just for the perfect horn sound—endures.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• The implications of this type of systemic absolution are heavy.
  — Mimi Madrid, The Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2020
• This was a breathtaking act of self-absolution and deception.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 12 May 2017
• The woman’s love and affection, as well as her genuine repentance, won his absolution of her sins.
  — Eric Bashor, Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2026
• This is a man who only seems fully alive when fists connect with flesh, a brute whose baptism scene feels like a triumph, but whose absolution feels a long way away.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• The death of the white man conjures images of Christ’s resurrection and absolution for white sins.
  — Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• Which means the World Series win, and absolution of all that suffering, will last a lifetime.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 31 Dec. 2019
• Ruth’s defense and absolution of the priest becomes a personal crusade.
  — Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 21 Mar. 2022
• There’s something to be said, too, for a whistleblower movie that doesn’t swerve directly into simple absolution at the end.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• The priest goes with the mestizo, but the man refuses confession and dies without absolution.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
• Whether this awakening is complete and whether the film’s final notes of absolution are fully earned are matters worth arguing about.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
• The Dodgers granted Bellinger absolution by scoring seven runs in the final three innings.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 5 May 2017