# plenary indulgence

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An indulgence that remits all of a person’s sins, and thus the whole of their time in purgatory.

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

## Source
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