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▪ I. pardoner1 Now only Hist.|ˈpɑːdənə(r)|
Also 4–6 perdon-, (5 perden-); 5 -eer, 5–6 -are, -air, -ar.
[In AF. pardoner; F. pardonnier (Palsgr.); f. pardon n. + -er2 2: cf. garden-er; also obs. F. pardonnaire in Rabelais.]
A person licensed to sell papal pardons or indulgences.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. Prol. 65 Þer prechede a pardoner, As he a prest were. c1380Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 154 Þere comeþ a pardoner wiþ stollen bullis & false relekis. c1386Chaucer Prol. 670 With hym ther was a gentil Pardoner..That streit was comen from the court of Rome. 1486Bk. St. Albans F vij, A Lyeng of perdeneris. a1500Colkelbie Sow i. 120 A peruerst perdonair, And practand palmair. 1536Proclam. in Elyot's Gov. (1883) Life 124 Light persons called pardoners and sellers of indulgences. 1672R. Wild Declar. Lib. Consc. 13 The old Pardoner will never get Peter-pence enough here to buy him a pair of breeches. 1706tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th C. II. iii. ii. 18 The Complaints which the Faithful made of the Pardoners. 1808Scott Marm. i. xx, Or pardoner or travelling priest.
▪ II. ˈpardoner2
[f. pardon v. + -er1 2: cf. F. pardonneur.]
One who pardons or forgives.
1581Fulke in Confer. ii. (1584) N, Be present as a pardoner of our excesse. 1675Traherne Chr. Ethics 388 An injury forgiven is forgotten by him that did it, and the friendship continues at the expence, and to the honour and comfort of the pardoner. 1866Miss Mulock Noble Life xiii. 220 [He] who is at once the Judge and the Pardoner of sinners. |