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pardoners

pardoners is the plural of pardoner.

Meaning of pardoner

Noun

pardoner (plural pardoners)

  1. One who pardons.
  2. (historical) In medieval Catholicism, a person licensed to grant papal pardons or indulgences.
    • […] old men, cheated by their wives and daughters, pillaged by their sons, and imposed on by their domestics, a braggadocia captain, a knavish pardoner or quaestionary, a country bumpkin and a wanton city dame.1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot

Questions about pardoners

What is pardoners the plural of?
Pardoners is the plural of pardoner.

Words near pardoners in the dictionary

  1. pardoned
  2. pardoned my French
  3. pardonee
  4. pardonees
  5. pardoner
  6. pardoners
  7. pardonest
  8. pardoneth
  9. Pardongate
  10. pardoning
  11. pardoning my French

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