indulgencer

English

Etymology

indulgence +‎ -er

Noun

indulgencer (plural indulgencers)

1. One who indulges; one who offers indulgence.
   • 1820, John Eagleton, Friendly Cautions to Youth, page 20:

     Criminal indulgencers boast, it is true, of their exploits of love, and gallant achievements.

   • 1926, Reginald Farrer, On the Eaves of the World - Volume 2, page 273:

     With endless opportunities for illicit gains in every kind, these horse-leeches are the pardoners and indulgencers of China, and as popular here as their prototypes in the literature of our Middle Ages.

   • 1928, William Thomson Hastings, Contemporary Essays, page 90:

     There is a situation that demands the services of a kind-hearted indulgencer.

2. One who brokers papal indulgences.
   • 1656, John Trapp, A Commentary Or Exposition Upon All the Books of the New Testament:

     As if God should say to Papists, Go to your Indulgencers, pardon-mongers, Aneylers: or to carnal Gospellers, Go to your parasitical-preachers, that have soothed you up in your sins (and ye loved to have it so) or at the best, have shot off a few pot-guns onely against gross sins, and licked you whole again presently with, I hope better things of you, &c.

   • 1844, Joshua Stopford, Pagano-Papismus: or, an Exact Parallel between Rome-Pagan, and Rome-Christian:

     This cannot be understood literally; for it were a weak reason, because thy merchants are great men, therefore thou shalt be destroyed : by merchants therefore we must understand Rome's factors, the Pope's indulgencers, and other officers of his exchequer.