penitencer

English

Alternative forms

• penitenser

Etymology

French pénitencier.

Noun

penitencer (plural penitencers)

1. (obsolete) A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases.
   • 1875, Clarke, Charles Cowden, The Canterbury tales of Chaucer, with notes by T. Tyrwhitt, Cassell Petter & Galpin, page 288:

     I say not that if thou be assigned to thy penitencer for certain sin, that thou art bound to shew him all the remnant of thy sins...

References

• “penitencer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• pertinence