1eccl.occupationliturgicalpenitencer, priest appointed to hear confession, administer penance and give absolution:
(
c.1334; MS: s.xivm
)
Cist Gregoire, par son penitauncer frere Reymond del ordre des freres prechours [...] fist compiler les cinc livres de decretrals
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(
s.xiv2/3; MS: s.xivex
)
Nicholas, l'evesqe de Tuscane, cardinal et penitancier de la court de Rome, vint en Engleterre
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penitancer (c.1334)