The phrase "absolve ourselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of freeing oneself from blame or responsibility for a particular action or situation.
Example: "In order to move forward, we must find a way to absolve ourselves of the mistakes made in the past."
Alternatives: "free ourselves from blame" or "release ourselves from responsibility".
We cannot absolve ourselves.
"I absolve ourselves of any wrongdoing," Lady Marchmain whispered.
This is not something we can absolve ourselves of," he said.
I wonder, do we lie about history to absolve ourselves of guilt?
But can we as easily absolve ourselves for the thousands of civilian deaths that were a predictable and inevitable outcome of our war of choice?
In "destroying" her, we seek to absolve ourselves, or at the very least to distinguish ourselves, to say: "I am not like that".
Nothing is easier than blaming others for our troubles, and absolving ourselves of responsibility for our choices and our actions.
As a result, we wind up putting in place measures that simply manage the problem, often absolving ourselves of responsibility by blaming the person for his own predicament.
And it terrifies me because I'm astonished at how comfortable we are in absolving ourselves of what is basically a moral choice.
Of course the pathology of colonialism was deep-rooted, and the wounds manifested themselves in many unforeseen ways, and the cold war was lingering in the background, but we could no longer go on blaming others and absolving ourselves of the need to take action".
It needs to end once and for all, because as of now, we are merely transferring the baton from one ridiculed group to the next every so often, absolving ourselves of inaction by doing so, and claiming evolution of equality and tolerance when, in fact, that is a lie and we are comfortably dying from the cancer at the source which remains untreated and more ferocious than ever.
