English Explanatory Dictionary

partial indulgence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An indulgence that remits part of a person’s sins, and thus part of their time in purgatory.

Word forms

partial indulgence partial indulgences

Etymology

From partial + indulgence, a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin indulgentia partiālis.

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