Indulgencer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who indulges; one who offers indulgence.

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

  2. 2
    One who brokers papal indulgences.

    "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."

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

Etymology

From indulgence + -er.

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