[f. ABSOLVE v. + -ER1.] One who absolves, pronounces absolution, or acquits.
1663. Blair, Autobiogr. (1818), ii. 26. He is made to us … righteousness as our justifier and absolver.
1669. H. More, Antid. ag. Idolatry, i. They that take upon them to be the only absolvers of sin, are themselves held fast in the snares of eternal death.
1827. Keble, Chr. Year, 6, Sund. aft. Trin. The absolver saw the mighty grief And hastened with relief.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 681. The public feeling was strongly against the three absolvers.
