单词 | pardoner |
释义 | pardonern.1 Now historical. A person licensed to sell papal pardons or indulgences. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > pardoner quaestor1372 pardonerc1387 pardonister1402 pardon-monger1570 indulgentiary1577 quaestuary1615 indulgencer1647 pardon-pedlar1653 questman1691 questionary1820 c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 669 With hym ther rood a gentil pardoner [v.r. pardounner] Of Rounciual his freend and his comper. c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. Prol. 65 Þer prechide a pardoner as he a prest were. ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 154 (MED) Þere comeþ a pardoner wiþ stollen bullis & false relekis. 1536 Royal Proclam. in T. Elyot Gouernour (1880) I. Introd. p. cxxiv Light persons called pardoners and sellers of indulgences. 1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow i. 54 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 284 A peruerst perdonair and practand palmair. 1672 R. Wild Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 13 The old Pardoner will never get Peter-pence enough here to buy him a pair of breeches. 1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. iii. ii. 18 The Complaints which the Faithful made of the Pardoners. 1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xxi. 42 Or pardoner, or travelling priest. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth III. xvi. 318 The pardoner denied the charge flatly. ‘Indulgences were never cheaper to good husbandmen.’ 1912 Catholic Encycl. XIV. at Superstition A layman performing priestly functions, a pardoner selling spurious indulgences..all these are guilty of superstition. 1994 H. Bloom Western Canon ii. iv. 121 As lay persons, pardoners were not supposed to preach, but they did. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pardonern.2 A person who pardons or forgives another. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > forgiveness > [noun] > one who forgives forgiver?c1225 remitter1548 pardoner1581 condoner1869 1581 W. Fulke in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) ii. sig. N Be present as a pardoner of our excesse. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. ii. 111 This is his Pardon purchas'd by such sin, For which the Pardoner himselfe is in. View more context for this quotation a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 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. 1797 M. G. Lewis Minister v. vii. 211 God, the pardoner, lay not this crime to his charge! 1866 D. M. Mulock Noble Life xiii. 220 [He] who is at once the Judge and the Pardoner of sinners. 1991 M. Corner Does God Exist? 52 In the Qur'an..God is more often described in terms of generalised epithets that we normally associate with human life—for instance, Hearer, Keeper, Guide and Pardoner. 2002 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. (Nexis) 18 June a4 Jimmy Carter was elected president over Gerald Ford, Nixon's successor and pardoner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1c1387n.21581 |
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