English Explanatory Dictionary

plenary indulgence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

plenary indulgence plenary indulgences

Etymology

From plenary + indulgence, a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin indulgentia plēnāria.

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