Activists for women's rights had feared he would be acquitted, since his parents had absolved him of blame, a factor Pakistani courts often take into account.
By acting in this way, I shield you from complicity, I absolve you of all responsibility, since I myself make it impossible for you to see what you aren't meant to see.
A specially recruited group of priests and monks with enhanced powers of forgiveness have begun a year long mission to absolve the sins of Roman Catholics in some of the farthest-flung corners of the world.
We know that the variables in a woman's environment are much more likely to cause her to be angry than her hormones, but when she attributes anger to hormones, she's absolved of responsibility or criticism.
When two of the judges ruled that the men were not guilty of rape as there had been no violent coercion, and a third absolved the defendants completely of the charge, thousands of protesters filled the streets.