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- noun Plural form of
pardoner .
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Examples
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The pardoners are my good friends, but palmers and pilgrims, what think you
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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External acts and observations might cleanse and purge away what was regarded as an external affection of the soul; and we know that in historic times there was a class of men, comparable to the mediaeval "pardoners", whose profession it was to effect such cures.
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"pardoners," with their charms and relics; and to the tyrannical exactions of the "summoners," who, under pretence of writs from ecclesiastical courts, robbed all who were not in position to resist their fraudulent demands.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various
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As early as 1212 the Church acknowledged the corrupt practices of many pardoners.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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When the preaching friar in Piers the Plowman wishes to scorn the Augustinians, his worst accusation is that they lived by the "pur pardoners craft."
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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They speculated that the other turkey pardoners had delivered their clemency without a press release.
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When the preaching friar in Piers the Plowman wishes to scorn the Augustinians, his worst accusation is that they lived by the "pur pardoners craft."
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Church officials created numerous bulls recommending that the practice of pardoners be restricted: that they not be allowed to preach but only to read their letters.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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Church officials created numerous bulls recommending that the practice of pardoners be restricted: that they not be allowed to preach but only to read their letters.
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As early as 1212 the Church acknowledged the corrupt practices of many pardoners.
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