Assoil

Quick meaning: Assoil is a verb meaning To absolve or release (someone) from blame or sin; to forgive, to pardon.

Meaning

To absolve or release (someone) from blame or sin; to forgive, to pardon.

More Meanings

1. To atone or expiate for (something).
2. Followed by from or of: to acquit (someone) from a criminal charge; to find (someone) not guilty; to clear.
3. To clear up or resolve (a difficulty, doubt, problem, etc.); to absolve, to solve.
4. To refute (an argument, an objection, etc.).
5. To discharge (a liability, an obligation, etc.).
6. To get rid of, put off, or remove (something).
7. (archaic or obsolete) Followed by from or of: to release or set free (someone) from a liability, an obligation, etc.; to discharge.

Example Sentences

[M]any persons think themselves fairly assoiled, because they are no adulterers, no rebels, no drunkards, not of scandalous lives; […]

Let each act / Assoil a fault or help a merit grow: / Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads / Let love through good deeds show.

Pray deuoutly for the ſoule whom God aſſoile of one of the moſt worſhipfull Knights in his daies of manhood and cunning, Richard Beauchampe late Earle of Warwicke, […] [Inscription on the deceased's tomb.]

[B]eing juſtified by Faith, in a Forenſal ſenſe, that is, acquitted and aſſoiled from the guilt of all our ſins, as vvell as in ſeveral meaſures, according to our ſeveral ages and grovvths in Chriſtianity; […]

Word Forms

• assoils
• assoiling
• assoiled
• assoyle

Synonyms for assoil

Depending on context, synonyms include assoilze, exonerate, vindicate, acquittance, assoilzie, acquit.

Antonyms for assoil

Common opposites include convict.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include acquit, exculpate, exonerate, discharge, clear, assoyle.

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