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pardoner en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɑɹdənə/ (Canada)

Etymology

From pardon + -er.

Meanings

1. One who pardons.
2. (historical) In medieval Catholicism, a person licensed to grant papal pardons or indulgences.
   • 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.
   • […] 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. 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot:

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