pardoner — ozdic

Collocations

2

ADJ.

knavish

PARDONER + NOUN

quaestionary

Definitions

noun

1

One who pardons.

2

In medieval Catholicism, a person licensed to grant papal pardons or indulgences.

[…] 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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Synonyms

noun — a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offen

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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[…] 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

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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 t

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I begin my discourse with the Name of God, Creator, Nourisher, Pardoner.

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