#graduation

• To absolve — 1. To forgive, release, or free someone from a fault, punishment, or accusation; to declare innocent following a legal or ethical analysis. 2. To officially complete a cycle of education, a school, or specialization courses. In moral philosophy and ontology, the verb describes the sovereign act of restoring a subject's ethical purity and dignity, unshackling the conscience from a prior normative or penal burden.
• Absolution / Acquittal — The act of absolving and its result. 1. Forgiveness, release from a fault or punishment; a declaration of innocence. 2. The official completion of a cycle of studies or a form of education. From an ethical standpoint, graduation or absolution represents the formal transition into a new existential stage, either through the rehabilitation of a conscience cleared of guilt or through the public recognition of an individual's moral and intellectual competence.
• Alma mater — An allegorical expression from Latin, literally translated as 'nourishing mother', historically used by Romans to designate kind goddesses (Ceres, Cybele) and universally adopted in medieval and modern academic environments to refer to the university, college, or school that a person graduated from, which provided their intellectual and spiritual formation.
• Baccalaureate — A major national examination taken by high school graduates, the passing of which grants the baccalaureate title and the right to enroll in higher education; a complex test evaluating linguistic skills, academic profile, and knowledge accumulated throughout secondary education. As an adjective, it describes a young man who has successfully passed all written and oral trials of this maturity exam.
• Baccalaureate — An archaic form, obsolete spelling, or regional variant for 'bacalaureat' (the baccalaureate exam); the national high school graduation examination or the academic title granted upon passing it. Found primarily in 19th and early 20th-century administrative, legal, and literary texts, it reflects the phonetic adaptation stages of French loanwords into the modern Romanian educational system.