Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases.
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- noun obsolete A
priest who heardconfession and enjoinedpenance inextraordinary cases.
Etymologies
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French pénitencier.
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Examples
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And the bishop bade her to go confess her to his penitencer, which had plain power of him.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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