Absolution

1. n. Delivery, in speech.
2. n. An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
3. n. An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent.
4. n. The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.
5. n. An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, — for example, excommunication.
6. n. The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.