Explore Pardoners through 3 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pardoners meaning
plural of pardoner
Using Pardoners
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of pardoner
Context around Pardoners
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pardoners
- In this selection, "pardoners" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include by the pardoners who sold and pardoners in chaucer. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pardoners" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pardoners
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This was taken to extremes by the pardoners who sold absolutions for all kinds of sins to the poor. (19 words)
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. (29 words)
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. (32 words)
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. (32 words)
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. (29 words)
This was taken to extremes by the pardoners who sold absolutions for all kinds of sins to the poor. (19 words)
Example sentences (3)
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.