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pardon-monger

pardon-monger is the alternative spelling of pardonmonger.

Meaning of pardonmonger

Noun

pardonmonger (plural pardonmongers)

  1. (archaic, derogatory) A seller of (papal) indulgences.
    • I read of Tecelius, the Popes pardonmonger in Germany, that having by sale of indulgences scraped together a huge masse of money and returning for Rome, he was met and eased of his cash by an odde fellow; who being afterwards prosecuted for a felon, produced a pardon for future sinnes granted him...1650, John Trapp, Solomonis Παναρετος: or, A Commentarie upon the Books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs […], page 126

Forms of pardon-monger

pluralpardon-mongers

Questions about pardon-monger

What is pardon-monger the alternative spelling of?
Pardon-monger is the alternative spelling of pardonmonger.

Words near pardon-monger in the dictionary

  1. pardon mongers
  2. pardon my francais
  3. pardon my français
  4. pardon my French
  5. pardon the expression
  6. pardon-monger
  7. pardon-mongers
  8. pardonability
  9. pardonable
  10. pardonableness
  11. pardonably

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