ABSOLVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does absolved mean? 

• ABSOLVED (adjective)
  The adjective ABSOLVED has 1 sense:

1. freed from any question of guilt

  Familiarity information: ABSOLVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSOLVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freed from any question of guilt

Synonyms:

absolved; clear; cleared; exculpated; exonerated; vindicated

Context example:

his official honor is vindicated

Similar:

clean-handed; guiltless; innocent (free from evil or guilt)

 Context examples 

Nay, more, if you all agree, later, you are absolved from the promise.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“And yet,” said I, smiling, “I cannot quite hold myself absolved from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my records.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘I promised my friend that I would say nothing of the matter, and a promise is a promise,’ said she; ‘but if I can really help her when so serious a charge is laid against her, and when her own mouth, poor darling, is closed by illness, then I think I am absolved from my promise.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hopeless of the future, I wished but this—that my Maker had that night thought good to require my soul of me while I slept; and that this weary frame, absolved by death from further conflict with fate, had now but to decay quietly, and mingle in peace with the soil of this wilderness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I lingered at the gates; I lingered on the lawn; I paced backwards and forwards on the pavement; the shutters of the glass door were closed; I could not see into the interior; and both my eyes and spirit seemed drawn from the gloomy house—from the grey-hollow filled with rayless cells, as it appeared to me—to that sky expanded before me,—a blue sea absolved from taint of cloud; the moon ascending it in solemn march; her orb seeming to look up as she left the hill-tops, from behind which she had come, far and farther below her, and aspired to the zenith, midnight dark in its fathomless depth and measureless distance; and for those trembling stars that followed her course; they made my heart tremble, my veins glow when I viewed them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Well, Helen?" said I, putting my hand into hers: she chafed my fingers gently to warm them, and went on—If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)