After lying, Stanley sought absolution. From LearnThat.org.
And the thing about absolution is you have to earn it. From Wordnik.com. [well i don't know if i'm wrong because she's only just gone] Reference
I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins. From Wordnik.com. ['Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_] Reference
Feel free to reply even if you have no desire to post it on your own journal - absolution is granted:). From Wordnik.com. [April 13th, 2006] Reference
And indeed, they absolve from those that we do not remember; for which reason absolution, which is the voice of the. From Wordnik.com. [Apology of the Augsburg Confession] Reference
The Rock seemed to offer some kind of absolution, though she still wasn't sure exactly how it worked. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
Art.XII. omits "absolution" and part of the condemnatory clause. From Wordnik.com. [American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann] Reference
That kind of absolution-in-action is nothing short of a miracle. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
Does this work with "absolution" theme or just with pro-silver. From Wordnik.com. [phpBB.com]
Her son's death left Mrs. Hutchison searching for answers, absolution, meaning and solace. From Wordnik.com. [dispatch.com: RSS] Reference
"But that is precisely the case in question: one procures 'absolution' by universal suffrage.". From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon the Little] Reference
It seems like they want to impress us with their medium-sized vocabulary by using words such as "absolution,". From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
On the other hand, it is also curious to note the term 'absolution' appearing more and more frequently in psychoanalytic literature. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
“So what you came here for was a kind of absolution?. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Saturday Caller]
That's when the healing and absolution will begin. From Wordnik.com. [The Unsettling Sight of a Tiger Tamed] Reference
"" The wish for absolution is always there, '' he says. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Affair] Reference
What is to be said about private confession and absolution?. From Wordnik.com. [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference
Seven years on, it's time for fresh starts -- and absolution. From Wordnik.com. [Diana's Fading Legacy] Reference
And now for your soul's health I will give you all absolution. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Cuddling the child to her breast, the girl nods in quiet absolution. From Wordnik.com. [Birth Mothers, Seeking] Reference
This evidence in her hand was like an absolution; it left him without a stain. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
He had just turned to me for his absolution when I vomited all over the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
"It may not be, fair son," said the friar, "he hath perished without absolution.". From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
For Serbs who share such views, this is a conditional mea culpa, a subtle absolution. From Wordnik.com. [His Willing Executioners] Reference
"Confessionals with no absolution at the end are not pleasant," says the psychologist. From Wordnik.com. [A Tour Through 'Hell Week'] Reference
Then grant me plenary absolution by giving me a dance for the one I lost last night. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Should you die as you now are without absolution, you would be lost and damned forever. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
It was like an absolution -- and a sign that perhaps what I wrote today was meant to be. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Nash: The Making of a Novel: Borrowing From Real Life] Reference
Urbino and set out for Rome for the purpose of receiving absolution, this the jubilee year. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Many defense lawyers, though, have no interest in being priests; they want to get acquittals, not to give absolution. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Ask, Don't Tell] Reference
Only Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish president who imposed martial law in 1981, can make any case for absolution. From Wordnik.com. [Lives Of The Dictators] Reference
Since Israel's sins were not so great to land her in prison, you could argue she didn't need a whole book for absolution. From Wordnik.com. [Epistolary Crime Spree] Reference
"You're not afraid of it now!" he wondered, putting out his free hand as if he offered it also for the absolution of her touch. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
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