pardoner

How To Use pardoner In A Sentence

• Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
• Basically if you knew that you had sinned you would wait until a pardoner was in your region selling an indulgence and purchase one.
• Although the custom has since curtailed, in Chaucer's time it was common for pardoners - dealers in pardons - to travel the countryside peddling their ‘wares’.
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• There's a prim prioress, a pardoner in shabby green velvet, an enigmatic woman in fur-trimmed crimson.
• Kathryn smiled and watched the pardoner return the good-natured abuse. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
• No one, not even Dr. Lowry, has ever attempted to quantify Lincoln's full record as a pardoner, or to weigh it alongside his willingness to employ devastating weaponry.
• Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
• The characters which appeared and disappeared before the amused and interested audience, were those which fill the earlier stage in all nations — 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. The Abbot
• in the Middle Ages the unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners became a widespread abuse