penitencerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

French pénitencier.

名詞

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...

参照

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

アナグラム

• pertinence