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発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /æbˈzɑl.vɚ/, /əbˈzɑl.vɚ/

名詞

absolver (plural absolvers)

1. Agent noun of absolve; one who absolves. [First attested in the late 16 century.]
   • 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, [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, page 2:

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

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