Assertion: absolution | /r/CapableOf | expect to save his life
Facets:
value: by professing himself
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: About this time I was sent for to the viceroy's camp to confess a criminal, who, though falsely, was believed a Catholic, to whom, after a proper exhortation, I was going to pronounce the form of absolution , when those that waited to execute him told him aloud that if he expected to save his life by professing himself a Catholic, he would find himself deceived, and that he had nothing to do but prepare himself for death.