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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. 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.

Wiktionary

1. n. An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (R. C. Ch.) An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.