plenary indulgence

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Etymology edit

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

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plenary indulgence (plural plenary indulgences)

  1. (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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