different between abscond vs absolve

English

Etymology

Either borrowed from Middle French abscondre or directly from Latin abscond? (“hide”); formed from abs, ab (“away”) + cond? (“put together, store”), from con- (“together”) + *d?eh?- (“to put, place, set”).

• Cognate with sconce (“a type of light fixture”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?sk?nd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?sk?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd
• Hyphenation: ab?scond

Verb

abscond (third-person singular simple present absconds, present participle absconding, simple past and past participle absconded)

1. (intransitive, reflexive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution. [From mid 16th century.]

   Synonyms: flee, run away, steal away
2. (intransitive) To withdraw from. [From mid 16th century.]
3. (transitive) To evade, to hide or flee from.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To conceal; to take away. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]

   Synonym: conceal
5. (archaic, intransitive, reflexive) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.

Related terms

• sconce

Translations

References

French

Verb

abscond

1. third-person singular present indicative of abscondre

   il abscond — he hides

English

Etymology

First attested in the early 15th Century. From Middle English absolven, from Latin absolvere, present active infinitive of absolv? (“set free, acquit”), from ab (“away from”) + solv? (“loosen, free, release”). Doublet of assoil.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?z?lv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?z?lv/, /æb?s?lv/, /?b?z?lv/, /?b?s?lv/

Verb

absolve (third-person singular simple present absolves, present participle absolving, simple past and past participle absolved)

1. (transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.). [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
2. (transitive, obsolete) To resolve; to explain; to solve. [Attested from the late 15^th century until the mid 17^th century.]
   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 331-332,^[1]

     […] he that can monsters tame, laboures atchive, riddles absolve […]
3. (transitive) To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]
4. (transitive, law) To pronounce not guilty; to grant a pardon for. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]
5. (transitive, theology) To grant a remission of sin; to give absolution to. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]
6. (transitive, theology) To remit a sin; to give absolution for a sin. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]
7. (transitive, obsolete) To finish; to accomplish. [Attested from the late 16^th century until the early 19^th century.]
8. (transitive) To pass a course or test; to gain credit for a class; to qualify academically.

Usage notes

• (to set free, release from obligations): Normally followed by the word from.
• (to pronounce free from; give absolution for blame): Normally followed by the word from.

Synonyms

• (set free): excuse, exempt, free, release
• (pronounce free or give absolution): acquit, exculpate, exonerate, pardon, remit, vindicate
• (theology: to pronounce free or give absolution from sin): remit

Derived terms

• absolver

Related terms

Translations

References

Latin

Verb

absolve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of absolv?

Portuguese

Verb

absolve

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of absolver
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of absolver