(n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
(n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent.
(n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.
(n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication.
(n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
(n.) Delivery, in speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(3) No relationship was found with the absolute value of either peak or area GH.
(4) The guanethidine treatment resulted in an 86% absolute reduction in cell number in the superior cervical ganglia of 15 day old rats.
(5) The absolute level of ventilatory capacity resembles that of Nepalese children and differs from that of some other groups.
(6) Lipoprotein electrophoresis on agarose gel has been modified to allow estimation of the absolute quantity of each fraction.
(7) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
(8) Significant differences in the pharmacological characteristics of the alpha 2 adrenoceptor were observed between the tissues with reference to both absolute drug affinities as well as rank order of drug potency.
(9) This stimulation is mediated by one receptor with an apparent affinity of 3.3 X 10(-6) M. The hydroxyl group in the para position on phenylethanolamine was absolutely necessary to obtain an agonist whereas the meta hydroxyl group or the presence of a catechol almost suppressed the activity.
(10) The early absolute but transient dependence of these A-MuLV mast cell transformants on a fibroblast feeder suggests a multistep process in their evolution, in which the acquisition of autonomy from factors of mesenchymal cell origin may play an important role.
(11) From this it is clear that either an absolute increase in radiographic density or structural failure are the earliest radiological features.
(12) So far, attempts to produce linolenic acid deficiency in mammals have not revealed an absolute requirement for n-3 fatty acids.
(13) "We absolutely regret the setbacks Kim Dotcom has had since MegaUpload was taken offline, but we hope he as an entrepreneur will understand our side of the story and the decisions deliberately taken."
(14) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(15) The prime minister said: “I am taking absolutely nothing for granted.
(16) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
(17) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
(18) Methods are in development that will allow determination of absolute blood flow in pertinent vessels via IV-DSA.
(19) When using pair stimula, barbamil shortens the period of absolute nonexcitation and the second phase of depression in the cycle of restituted H-reflexes to the second stimula in the pair.
(20) Immune complex- and A23187-induced 20:4 release was absolutely dependent on extracellular Ca2+.
Confessor
Definition:
(n.) One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith.
(n.) A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) After completing his doctoral dissertation in Germany, Bergoglio served as a confessor and spiritual director in Cordoba.
(2) Over more than 50 years, from a post-Cambridge traineeship with the Associated-Rediffusion ITV franchise to a role with al-Jazeera, Frost was the interviewer of eight UK prime ministers and seven US presidents, a pioneer of TV satire and comedy, the tormentor-confessor of Richard Nixon, a TV entrepreneur and early innovator of self-production, a master of the chatshow sofa and a long-running gameshow host.
(3) It was hypothesized that the resisters would score significantly lower on tests of suggestibility and compliance than the alleged false confessors.
(4) "I had proposed a business venture, but instead I became a kind of confessor," he said.
(5) The effect of this has been cathartic on Munn, who seems to have grown into the character of celebrity confessor.
(6) That device – tracker, confessor, memoir and ledger – should be designed so that it is as hard as possible to gain unauthorised access to.
(7) Cromwell protested at such "dross and dung", but consented to wear a purple gown and sit on Edward the Confessor's throne in Westminster Hall.
(8) A group of 100 alleged false confessors was compared with 104 other forensic referrals on four psychological variables.
(9) Half of the subjects were alone in an experimental cubicle and talked into a tape recorder; the remaining subjects talked to a silent "confessor" who sat behind a curtain.
(10) Are you not in a state of grace?” Yet he infuriated the church with a speech at the great Catholic university in Indiana, Notre Dame , in which he equivocated like any 17th-century Jesuit confessor to royalty about the politics of abortion: "God should not," he dared to say to that audience, “be made into a celestial party chairman."
(11) She’s not your mother, your best friend or your confessor; a time machine to the 90s, the solution to the nation’s increasing divisiveness, or the correct variable in a complicated equation that equals 538; a reflection of what you want to hear, or the embodiment of what you want a “leader” to believe.
(12) Leonard was a compassionate and painstaking confessor and adviser.
(13) A separate analysis of 14 resisters and 72 alleged false confessors, where IQ and memory were used as covariates rather than 'matching' the two groups on the relevant variables, gave almost identical results.
(14) The presence of a confessor inhibited subjects' talking.
(15) The track that currently gets the most rewinds A Band Called Flash: Mother Confessor Facebook Twitter Pinterest This sounds like it could have could have been a lost Paradise Garage gem, but it was only released last year.
(16) He succeeded, of course, and in the process was ennobled and came to be regarded by many of Labour's premier players as a sage – a confessor figure, even.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The practice of royal touching as a cure for scrofula began in the 11th century with King Edward the Confessor, pictured here with a leper.
(18) This paper describes a study which compares the interrogative suggestibility and compliance scores of 20 alleged false confessors and 20 subjects who had persistently denied their involvement in the crime they were charged with in spite of forensic evidence against them (labelled 'resisters').
(19) Court papers allege that Zuley told Harris: “You’re only minutes away from being $20,000 richer.” The stick – as with Benita Johnson five years later in Chicago and Mohamedou Ould Slahi in Guantanamo come 2003 – was the would-be confessor’s family.