The phrase "absolve herself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone is seeking to free themselves from blame or guilt for a particular action or situation.
Example: "After much reflection, she hoped to find a way to absolve herself of the mistakes she had made in the past."
Alternatives: "clear herself" or "free herself from blame".
Therefore she contacted Apple in order to absolve herself of criminal responsibility…".
What she's actually doing is attempting to absolve herself of responsibility and guilt.
Grandma teaches them wifely duties, and she soon arranges marriages for the teens, if only to absolve herself of responsibility for them.
Clinton has attempted to absolve herself of responsibility by saying she now knows that the vote was a "mistake" and that she had been misled by President Bush.
Swift can be subtly manipulative in this way, absolving herself of blame when her relationships curdle.
But, even on first reading, these passages are jarring, a running thread of Rule absolving herself to preëmpt criticism.
Marcella's second big victory of the week came when she managed to link the Grove Park killer – or rather the copycat – to Grace Gibson's death, effectively absolving herself.
When she sleeps with a French cyclist in the Peruvian Andes, her long-term boyfriend far away in New York, she absolves herself of guilt: "I'm just taking a break between one real-life thing and another".
Like the tall poppies she named one of her 13 books after, Mensch, 40, has attracted detractors but in so publicly rejecting the claim that Murdoch Sr is "not fit" to run a large corporate – which creates the embarrassing potential that she appears to be defending Murdoch's discredited record in Britain – Mensch is perhaps absolving herself of previous claims that she is opportunistic.
With this devastating logic, Deepika strips her on-screen characters of their humanity, and distances herself from them -- thus absolving herself of responsibility for the outcome of of the very messages that have led to her and countless others' off-screen victimization.
Martinez cannot absolve himself of all responsibility, though.
