absolver
nounUS /æbˈzɑl.vɚ/
Etymology From absolve + -er.
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Agent Agent noun of absolve; one who absolves.
- […] 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’?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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
- […] few men dislike the Lay-Excommunicators and Absolvers more than I do […]1684, Richard Baxter, Whether Parish Congregations Be True Christian Churches, London: Thomas Parkhurst, page 2: