absolver

absolve +‎ -er

• (US) IPA^(key): /æbˈzɑl.vɚ/, /əbˈzɑl.vɚ/

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absolver (plural absolvers)

1. Agent noun of absolve; one who absolves. [First attested in the late 16^th century.][1]
   • 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 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:

     […] 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’?

   • 1684, Richard Baxter, Whether Parish Congregations Be True Christian Churches, London: Thomas Parkhurst, p. 2,

     […] few men dislike the Lay-Excommunicators and Absolvers more than I do […]

From Latin absolvō.

absolver

1. (transitive) to absolve

• IPA^(key): /absɔlˈʋeːr/

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• Rhymes: -eːr
• Hyphenation: ab‧sol‧ver

absolver

1. imperative of absolvere

Borrowed from Latin absolvere.

absolver (first-person singular present absolvo, first-person singular preterite absolvi, past participle absolvido)

1. to absolve
2. (law) to acquit
3. to forgive

• absolução
• absolutório

• “absolver” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin absolvō, adapted to the conjugations of the inherited verb solver.

• IPA^(key): /absolˈbeɾ/ [aβ̞.solˈβ̞eɾ]

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: ab‧sol‧ver

absolver (first-person singular present absuelvo, first-person singular preterite absolví, past participle absuelto)

1. (transitive) to absolve
2. (transitive) to acquit

• absolución
• absoluto
• absolutorio

• “absolver”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014