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Pardoners meaning
plural of pardoner
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Pardoners in Chaucer's day were those people from whom one bought Church "indulgences" for forgiveness of sins, who were guilty of abusing their office for their own gain.
This was taken to extremes by the pardoners who sold absolutions for all kinds of sins to the poor.
While pardoners were hated but needed to redeem one's soul, the friars who failed to follow the Church's moral commandments by failing their vows of chastity and poverty were despised.