Indulgencer

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

One who indulges; one who offers indulgence..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who indulges; one who offers indulgence.
2. One who brokers papal indulgences.

Example Sentences

Criminal indulgencers boast, it is true, of their exploits of love, and gallant achievements.

With endless opportunities for illicit gains in every kind, these horse-leeches are the pardoners and indulgencers of China, and as popular here as their prototypes in the literature of our Middle Ages.

There is a situation that demands the services of a kind-hearted indulgencer.

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 whole again presently with, I hope better things of you, &c.

This cannot be understood literally; for it were a weak reason, because thy merchants are great men, therefore thou shalt be destroyed : by merchants therefore we must understand Rome's factors, the Pope's indulgencers, and other officers of his exchequer.

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