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indulgencer en · NOUN

Etymology

From indulgence + -er.

Meanings

1. One who indulges; one who offers indulgence.
   • With endless opportunities for illicit gains in every kind, these horse-leeches are the pardoners and indulgencers of China, and as popular here as their prototypes in the literature of our Middle Ages. 1926, Reginald Farrer, On the Eaves of the World - Volume 2, page 273:
   • Criminal indulgencers boast, it is true, of their exploits of love, and gallant achievements. 1820, John Eagleton, Friendly Cautions to Youth, page 20:
   • There is a situation that demands the services of a kind-hearted indulgencer. 1928, William Thomson Hastings, Contemporary Essays, page 90:
2. One who brokers papal indulgences.
   • This cannot be understood literally; for it were a weak reason, because thy merchants are great men, therefore thou shalt be destroyed : by merchants therefore we must understand Rome's factors, the Pope's indulgencers, and other officers of his exchequer. 1844, Joshua Stopford, Pagano-Papismus: or, an Exact Parallel between Rome-Pagan, and Rome-Christian:
   • As if God should say to Papists, Go to your Indulgencers, pardon-mongers, Aneylers: or to carnal Gospellers, Go to your parasitical-preachers, that have soothed you up in your sins (and ye loved to have it so) or at the best, have shot off a few pot-guns onely against gross sins, and licked you whole again presently with, I hope better things of you, &c. 1656, John Trapp, A Commentary Or Exposition Upon All the Books of the New Testament:

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