Meaning

2 senses

  1. One who pardons.

    a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense

  2. (historical)In medieval Catholicism, a person licensed to grant papal pardons or indulgences.

    a medieval cleric who raised money for the church by selling papal indulgences

Examples

1 sentences

  1. I begin my discourse with the Name of God, Creator, Nourisher, Pardoner.

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Origin

From pardon + -er.

From pardon + -er.

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Forms

plural: pardoners
Singularpardoner
Pluralpardoners

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense:forgiverexcuser

Word family

1 related words
Relatedpardon

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
parchmentpardonA1pareparentA1parentage

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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