pardoner

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 216 words | Copyright

pardoner a person who was licensed to sell papal pardons or indulgences; in the Middle Ages, pardoners such as the character in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales were often represented as figures of dubious moral probity.

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