absolver

absolve +‎ -er

• (US) IPA^(key): /æbˈzɑl.vɚ/, /əbˈzɑl.vɚ/

absolver (plural absolvers)

1. Agent noun of absolve; one who absolves. [First attested in the late 16^th century.][1]
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 3,

     […] 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, p. 2,

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

absolver

1. (transitive) to absolve

absolver (first-person singular present indicative absolvo, past participle absolvido)

1. to absolve
2. (law) To acquit
3. to forgive

From Latin absolvere, present active infinitive of absolvō (“absolve”).

• IPA^(key): /absolˈbeɾ/, [aβsolˈβeɾ]

absolver (first-person singular present absuelvo, first-person singular preterite absolví, past participle absuelto)

1. to absolve
2. to acquit

• Rule: o becomes a ue in stressed syllables. Irregular in the past participle.

• absolución
• absoluto
• absolutorio

• “absolver” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.