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indulgencers

indulgencers is the plural of indulgencer.

Meaning of indulgencer

Noun

indulgencer (plural indulgencers)

  1. One who indulges; one who offers indulgence.
    • Criminal indulgencers boast, it is true, of their exploits of love, and gallant achievements.1820, John Eagleton, Friendly Cautions to Youth, page 20
  2. One who brokers papal indulgences.
    • As if God should say to Papists, Go to your Indulgencers, pardon-mongers, Aneylers: or to carnal Gospellers, Go to your parasitical-preachers, that have soothed you up in your sins (and ye loved to have it so) or at the best, have shot off a few pot-guns onely against gross sins, and licked you...1656, John Trapp, A Commentary Or Exposition Upon All the Books of the New Testament

Questions about indulgencers

What is indulgencers the plural of?
Indulgencers is the plural of indulgencer.

Words near indulgencers in the dictionary

  1. indulgement
  2. indulgements
  3. indulgence
  4. indulgenced
  5. indulgencer
  6. indulgencers
  7. indulgences
  8. indulgencies
  9. indulgencing
  10. indulgency
  11. indulgency pattern

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