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Word Meanings - ABSOLUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. (more info) 1. An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. "Government . . . granting absolution to the nation." Froude.
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- CONFINER
One who, or that which, limits or restrains. - RELEASE
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. - CONSTRAINTIVE
Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew. - FETTERLESS
Free from fetters. Marston. - CONFINELESS
Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak. - CONSTRAINED
Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone. - JUSTIFICATION
The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer. (more info) 1. The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to - CONFINE
To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of - CONFINEMENT
1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by - CONSECRATION
The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication. Until the days of your consecration be at an end. Lev. viii. 33. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemny declares it so. South. - CONSTRAINT
The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden. Syn. -- Compulsion; - RELEASEMENT
The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton. - CONSTRAINABLE
Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker. - DISCHARGER
One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod. - DISCHARGE
1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge - RELEASEE
One to whom a release is given. - RELEASER
One who releases, or sets free. - CONSTRAINER
One who constrains. - FETTERED
Seeming as if fettered, as the feet pf certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking. - SANCTIFICATION
1. The act of sanctifying or making holy; the being sanctified or made holy; esp. , the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified, or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to, a supreme love to God; also, the state - MELANCHOLINESS
The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell. - MISCONSECRATION
Wrong consecration. - ENFETTER
To bind in fetters; to enchain. "Enfettered to her love." Shak. - UNFETTER
To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind. - UNSANCTIFICATION
Absence or lack of sanctification. Shak. - RAMSHACKLE
Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. Thackeray. - IRREMISSION
Refusal of pardon. - UNSHACKLE
To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter. Addison.