definition of the word absolutory

Latin absolutorius, from absolvere (“‘to absolve’”).

absolutory (comparative more absolutory, superlative most absolutory)

1. Serving to absolve; absolving.
   • 1997, Dan P. McAdams, The Stories We Live by: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self, page 107:  

     Finally, in the self-absolutory strategy, a negative past is seen to have produced a negative present.

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