Pardoner
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- a medieval cleric who would sell pardons and indulgences
- c. 1390: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (Prologue)
- With him there rode a gentle pardonere / Of Ronceval, his friend and his compere, / That straight was comen from the court of Rome.
- 1820: Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot
- ... 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.
- c. 1390: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (Prologue)
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