Definition of "assoil" []

• Archaic To absolve; pardon. (verb-transitive)
• Archaic To atone for. (verb-transitive)

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• "Then said Sir Reginald: But if thou assoil the king and all other standing in the curse, it shall cost thee thy life."
• "And these four knights aforesaid came to Canterbury on the Tuesday in Christmas week about Evensong time, and came to S. Thomas and said that the king commanded him to make amends for the wrongs that he had done, and also that he should assoil all them that he had accursed anon, or else they should slay him."
• "She had declared that she was incapable of further jealousy — and yet she now told him of daily sin of which her conscience could not assoil itself."