[f. ABSOLVE v. + -ING2.] That absolves or sets free; acquitting.
1696. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), IV. 46. One of the absolving parsons has privately printed his vindication.
1862. Trench, Miracles, ix. 206. The absolving words are not to be regarded as optative merely,… but as declaratory.
