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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A papal indulgence for forty days; a remission of the temporal punishment due to sin corresponding to the forty days of the ancient canonical penance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
indulgence offorty days,corresponding to theforty days ofancient canonical penance .
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