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Parson vs Pardoner - What's the difference?

parson | pardoner |

As nouns the difference between parson and pardoner

is that parson is an anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector while pardoner is one who pardons.

parson

English

(wikipedia parson)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector.
  • A Protestant minister.

    • Derived terms

    * parsonage * parsondom

    Synonyms

    * cleric * father * minister * priest * vicar

    Anagrams

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    pardoner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who pardons.
  • (historical) In medieval Catholicism, a person licensed to grant papal pardons or 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.
  • * 1917 , Catholic Encyclopedia , "Collections" [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04104b.htm]
    • These grants of Indulgence were often entrusted to preachers of note ("Pardoners") who carried them from town to town, collecting money and using their eloquence to recommend the good work in question and to enhance the spiritual privileges attached to it.
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