assoil
Meanings
verb
- To absolve or release (someone) from blame or sin; to forgive, to pardon.
- To atone or expiate for (something).
- Followed by from or of: to acquit (someone) from a criminal charge; to find (someone) not guilty; to clear.
- Followed by from or of: to release or set free (someone) from a liability, an obligation, etc.; to discharge.
- To clear up or resolve (a difficulty, doubt, problem, etc.); to absolve, to solve.
- To refute (an argument, an objection, etc.).
- To discharge (a liability, an obligation, etc.).
- To get rid of, put off, or remove (something).
- To absolve or release (someone) from excommunication or some other religious offence.
verb
- To make (something) dirty or soiled; to soil; to stain; to sully.
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Etymology
From Middle English assoilen (“to absolve or release from blame or sin”), from Anglo-Norman as(s)oiler, as(s)oilier, and Old French as(s)oille [and other forms], the present subjunctive, and as(s)oil, the present indicative, of as(s)oldre, as(s)oudre (“to absolve from blame”) (modern French absoudre), from Latin absoluere, the present active infinitive of absoluō, a variant of absolvō (“to set free from”), from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away from’) + solvō (“to loosen, set free”) (from sē- (“prefix meaning ‘apart; aside; away’”) + luō (“to let go, set free”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut off, to free”). Doublet of absolve and assoilzie.
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