Despite the complexity of the condensed phase, the methods with the most success in reproducing both the energies and intensities of liquid-phase XAS are wave function approaches such as restricted active-space (RAS) 5 and coupled-cluster with single and double excitations (CCSD). These approaches have been contrasted with transition-potential density functional theory (TP-DFT) and TDDFT, and in both cases the success of wave function theory where DFT failed was attributed to the lack of double excitations in the DFT-based approaches. This hypothesis appears to be bolstered by the fact that perturbative inclusion of double excitations via CC2 also fails to accurately model the XAS spectral profiles of aqueous ammonia and ammonium. In addition, it was shown that CCSD accurately captures the preedge and main-edge features due to the variational inclusion of double excitations in the wave function, thereby encoding orbital relaxation into the resultant spectra. The objective of this work is to probe the effects of orbital relaxation on the spectral profiles of liquid-phase XAS as predicted by wave function-based and DFT-based linear response theories.