Pardoner

The Pardoner is trying to scare his audience with a too-obvious so-called "moral" point: you're not human unless you die, and soon.

Last of the Time Lords Mary Kate Hurley 2007

Televangelists are also part of a long, glorious tradition, represented here by a "Pardoner" who sold indulgences.

Archive 2009-08-01 Karen Burnham 2009

Televangelists are also part of a long, glorious tradition, represented here by a "Pardoner" who sold indulgences.

Thoughts on the Canterbury Tales Karen Burnham 2009

This class has happily disappeared, but the type has been preserved in Chaucer's "Pardoner", with his bogus relics and indulgences.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

The "Pardoner" is exuberant in his sample-eloquence; the "Doctor of Physic" is gravely and sententiously moral --

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

"Pardoner" of the "Canterbury Tales," have made a point of treating their own favourite vice as their one and unchangeable text: --

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

Hence, the credulous acceptance of relics like those sold by the "Pardoner," and of legends like those related to Chaucer's Pilgrims by the "Prioress" (one of the numerous repetitions of a cruel calumny against the Jews), and by the

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

Bacchus, and makes so experienced a practitioner as the "Pardoner" the mouthpiece of as witty an invective against drunkenness as has been uttered by any assailant of our existing licensing laws.

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

"I advise," says the "Pardoner," with polite impudence (when inviting the company to become purchasers of the holy wares which he has for sale), that

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

Among them there is the "Pardoner," i.e. seller of pardons

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880