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解放 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • absolution noun A formal declaration of forgiveness for sins, especially one given by a priest.
  • absolve verb To officially clear someone of blame, guilt, or responsibility.
  • acquit verb To declare or find innocent or not guilty.
  • emancipation noun The act of freeing someone from slavery, legal control, or oppressive restriction.
  • free adj Not under the control of someone else; not imprisoned or restricted.
  • liberate verb To set someone or something free from confinement, control, or oppression.
  • liberation noun The act of setting someone or something free, or the state of having been freed.
  • release verb To set free or allow to leave, especially from captivity or confinement.

Senses

解放 is used for these senses in English:

  • absolution An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
  • absolve (transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.). [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
  • acquit (transitive) To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil.
  • emancipation The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).
  • free (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release.
  • liberate (transitive) To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly
  • liberation The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • release (transitive) To let go of; to cease to hold or contain.

absolution — full definition

  1. noun A formal declaration of forgiveness for sins, especially one given by a priest.
  2. noun A general release from blame or guilt for wrongdoing.

absolve — full definition

  1. verb To officially clear someone of blame, guilt, or responsibility.
  2. verb To formally forgive someone of their sins.

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