unabsolved

He could not, or would not, go to her in her own altar within the choir, unabsolved as he was, but for a moment he had the lovely illusion that she had risen and was coming to him.

A River So Long 2010

All it takes to be excluded from the Beatific Vision is unremitted original sin, or merely one unabsolved mortal sin.

CONFIRMED 2009

He could not, or would not, go to her in her own altar within the choir, unabsolved as he was, but for a moment he had the lovely illusion that she had risen and was coming to him.

Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994

He was an unabsolved excommunicate; not even a priest could help him, for in the mid-Lent council called the previous year by Henry of Blois, bishop of Winchester, the king's brother and at that time papal legate, it had been decreed that no man who did violence to a cleric could be absolved by anyone but the Pope himself, and that not by any distant decree, but in the Pope's veritable presence.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

On the sixteenth day of September Geoffrey de Mandeville died, still excommunicate, still unabsolved.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

I was terrified — I am a member of the true Church, monsieur — a good Catholic, and in the hour of death I was afraid to die unabsolved.

The White Cottage Mystery Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1975

"Was it not shortly after the day in which that heartless villain, the Proveditore Marcello, captured the woivode's wife, and hung her, unoffending and defenceless, unshriven and unabsolved, upon a tree on the Dalmatian shore?"

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

She remembered one who died there suddenly, and without remedy, -- her father, unabsolved and unanointed, dying in fear and torment, in a moment when none anticipated death.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

May I die unabsolved if so sly a conspiracy ever came up.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

But bitter were the tears Père Ramain shed when he found she had gone to her last account unshriven and unabsolved.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various