What's the difference between absolve and pronounce?

Absolve


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.
  • (v. t.) To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.
  • (v. t.) To finish; to accomplish.
  • (v. t.) To resolve or explain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
  • (2) Their actions suggested that while Brown was busy unilaterally absolving the inequities of our colonial past, the Iraqis are still dealing with the iniquities of our colonial present.
  • (3) The development of body-weight from three anual-sets of children, who are born in the town of Görlitz, from birth to time of school-absolvation is presented.
  • (4) The company appears to blame multiple agencies and absolve itself of any responsibility for the violence in February that left one asylum seeker dead and dozens injured.
  • (5) Doctors should be careful not to absolve the government of its public health obligations by substituting unproved preventive interventions aimed at the individual patient.
  • (6) This raises the prospect that businesses could effectively take an "emissions holiday", absolving them from the need to invest in energy efficiency and renewable power for several years.
  • (7) Hussain is trying to block the settlement, saying HP officials were wrongly absolved in the ill-fated acquisition of Autonomy for $11.1bn (£6.6bn) in 2011.
  • (8) We are also dismayed, however, at Tony Blair's recent attempts to absolve himself of any responsibility for the current crisis by isolating it from the legacy of the Iraq war .
  • (9) Leung’s office told the Age that the agreement “related to past, not future, service”, absolving Leung of the responsibility to disclose his gains.
  • (10) This does not mean schools will be absolved from any responsibilities in the strategy, since they have a vital role in educating children on diet, providing school sport and ensuring their own school dinners do not contain an excessive amount of fat, Issues that are likely to be tackled in the obesity strategy include: better information for parents on children’s diets; requiring processed products to state how many spoonfuls of added sugar they contain; and making it easier for consumers to make quick comparisons between competing brands.
  • (11) The drama currently unfolding in Greece has seen politicians stick to a tried and tested formula for passing the buck: when your back's against the wall, lash out at a third party in a desperate attempt to save face and absolve yourself of responsibility.
  • (12) But Kalashnikov seems to have found a way of absolving himself from any blame or responsibility for his baby's death toll.
  • (13) Yet they’ve turned into a two-tiered justice system wherein prosecutors are able to manipulate grand juries into pretty much whatever decision they please, and absolve themselves of any accountability when they rig the system for their allies.
  • (14) Two offsides and a set-piece,” Manuel Pellegrini, the City manager, complained, as he sought to play up the freakish nature of the result and absolve his goalkeeper and central defenders.
  • (15) Thus the eventual purpose of the counter-claims may not be to absolve the separatists fully, but to suggest they may have used a seized Ukrainian Buk system, rather than one sent across the border from Russia, thus formally absolving Moscow of blame.
  • (16) They also absolve long-term unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia as a mechanism of hepatic microsomal dysfunction.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Everton manager, however, attempted to absolve Mirallas of blame but conceded the miss had affected the team’s confidence for the remainder of the game, one that extended their dreadful run to one win in 13 matches.
  • (18) That doesn’t absolve governments of their responsibilities for setting the regulatory framework and enforcement regimes.
  • (19) It’s ludicrous that people can go into a confessional box and confess horrendous crimes and be absolved.
  • (20) Newcastle were relegated at the end of that season with Alan Shearer having been drafted in for what was a desperate and ultimately vain attempt to drag them out of trouble, and Kinnear has since absolved himself of any responsibility for that disaster.

Pronounce


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.
  • (v. t.) To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
  • (v. t.) To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
  • (v. t.) To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
  • (v. i.) To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
  • (v. i.) To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
  • (n.) Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
  • (2) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
  • (3) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
  • (4) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
  • (5) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
  • (6) Hypercalcitoninemia was the most pronounced in patients with cardiac rhythm disorders and a simultaneous reduction in total serum calcium.
  • (7) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
  • (8) This phenomenon is age dependent and more pronounced in animals with sever autoimmune disease.
  • (9) Comparison of the 50% binding concentrations of the compounds for the various PBPs of the five strains with their antibacterial activity indicates that the different antibiotics are excluded to a greater or lesser degree by the outer membrane permeability barrier and that the exclusion is most pronounced in P. aeruginosa.
  • (10) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
  • (11) Inhibition of binding of [3H]TPA to the receptor preparation by tigliane and ingenane DTE correlates with irritant activity in vivo, while some daphnane and 1 alpha-alkyldaphnane DTE inhibit binding of [3H]TPA in a less pronounced manner but still are very irritant.
  • (12) There were pronounced differences from the fine structural aspects in late infantile cases.
  • (13) A more pronounced and significant inhibition was observed in chicks given BCG subcutaneously 8 weeks before the start of the dietary regimen.
  • (14) There were pronounced interspecies differences in binding affinity and binding capacity which were the highest in guinea pig and human species, respectively.
  • (15) When propofol and fentanyl were used together, the cardiovascular effects were more pronounced than when they were used alone.
  • (16) In the synovia, size and number of the multinuclear giant cells are less pronounced.
  • (17) The concomitant reduction in aortic pressure and increase in heart rate following total occlusion of the portal vein were most pronounced during the first weeks after stenosis, and were probably due to diminished venous return to the heart.
  • (18) The sensitivity of the Limulus lateral eye exhibits a pronounced circadian rhythm.
  • (19) This early elevation in IOP was significantly more pronounced in bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomized (BG) rabbits.
  • (20) The ligands bind at discrete sites in the minor groove of DNA, and analysis on DNA sequencing gels show pronounced protection at the ligand binding sites, as well as more generalized protection.