plenary indulgence

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from indulgentia
  2. derived from indulgence
  3. inherited from indulgence
  4. compounded as plenary indulgence — “plenary + indulgence

Definitions

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

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

The neighborhood

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