Pardoner

Definitions

1. One who pardons.
2. In medieval Catholicism, a person licensed to grant papal pardons or indulgences.
   historical

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] old men, cheated by their wives and daughters, pillaged by their sons, and imposed on by their domestics, a braggadocia captain, a knavish pardoner or quaestionary, a country bumpkin and a wanton city dame.”

“1917, Catholic Encyclopedia, "Collections" http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04104b.htm These grants of Indulgence were often entrusted to preachers of note⟳ ("Pardoners") who carried them from town to town, collecting money and using their eloquence to recommend⟳ the good work⟳ in question⟳ and to enhance the spiritual privileges attached to it.”

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