Definitions for pardoner
ˈpɑr dn ərpar·don·er

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pardoner, forgiver, excusernoun

   a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense

2. pardonernoun

   a medieval cleric who raised money for the church by selling papal indulgences

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1. pardonernoun

   a medieval cleric who would sell pardons and indulgences

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pardonernoun

   Etymology: from pardon.

   1. One who forgives another.

   This is his pardon, purchas’d by such sin,
   For which the pardoner himself is in. William Shakespeare.

   2. Fellows that carried about the pope’s indulgencies, and sold them to such as would buy them, against whom Luther incensed the people of Germany.

   John Cowell.

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1. pardoner

   In the teaching of the Catholic Church, an indulgence (Latin: indulgentia, from indulgeo, 'permit') is "a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins". The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes an indulgence as "a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and all of the saints".The recipient of an indulgence must perform an action to receive it. This is most often the saying (once, or many times) of a specified prayer, but may also include a pilgrimage, the visiting of a particular place (such as a shrine, church or cemetery) or the performance of specific good works.Indulgences were introduced to allow for the remission of the severe penances of the early church and granted at the intercession of Christians awaiting martyrdom or at least imprisoned for the faith. The church teaches that indulgences draw on the treasury of merit accumulated by Jesus' superabundantly meritorious sacrifice on the cross and the virtues and penances of the saints. They are granted for specific good works and prayers in proportion to the devotion with which those good works are performed or prayers recited.By the late Middle Ages, indulgences were used to support charities for the public good including hospitals. However, the abuse of indulgences, mainly through commercialization, had become a serious problem which the church recognized but was unable to restrain effectively. Indulgences were, from the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, a target of attacks by Martin Luther and other Protestant theologians. Eventually the Catholic Counter-Reformation curbed the abuses of indulgences, but indulgences continue to play a role in modern Catholic religious life, and were dogmatically confirmed as part of the Catholic faith by the Council of Trent. Reforms in the 20th century largely abolished the quantification of indulgences, which had been expressed in terms of days or years. These days or years were meant to represent the equivalent of time spent in penance, although it was widely mistaken to mean time spent in Purgatory. The reforms also greatly reduced the number of indulgences granted for visiting particular churches and other locations.

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1. pardoner

   A pardoner is a person, usually in historical or religious contexts, who is authorized to grant pardons or forgiveness for sins, often in exchange for donations or payments. This term is particularly associated with the medieval Catholic Church.

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1. Pardonernoun

   one who pardons

2. Pardonernoun

   a seller of indulgences

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1. • Cleric
   • Person

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1. preadorn

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   The numerical value of pardoner in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

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   The numerical value of pardoner in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pardoner
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pardoner
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=pardoner
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardoner
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pardoner