plenary indulgence

noun

plenary indulgence

noun

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

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

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