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indultnoun(Catholicism) A permission or privilege granted by the church authority that excepts an individual from what is otherwise a norm of church law, such as a release from monastic vows.
indulgencenounThe act of indulging.
dispensationnounThe act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution
privilegenoun(countable) A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others; a prerogative, preferential treatment.
partial indulgencenoun(Roman Catholicism) An indulgence that remits part of a person’s sins, and thus part of their time in purgatory.
immunitynoun(medicine) Protective resistance against disease.
penitentiarynoun(chiefly US) A state or federal prison for convicted felons; (loosely) a prison.
plenary indulgencenoun(Roman Catholicism) An indulgence that remits all of a person’s sins, and thus the whole of their time in purgatory.
exeatnounA license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).
exclaustrationnounThe release of a monk (or nun) from their religious vows, and their subsequent return to the outside world.
remissionnoun(medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.
misericordianounCompassionate mercy.
interdictnounA papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.
absolutionnounThe forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
tolerationnounThe allowance of something not explicitly approved; tolerance, forbearance.
admissionnounPermission to enter, or the entrance itself; admittance; entrance; access
provisionnounAn item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
jubileenoun(countable, by extension) A major anniversary of an event, particularly the fiftieth (50th) anniversary of a coronation or marriage.
auto de fénounAlternative form of auto da fe. [The public announcement of the sentences imposed by the Inquisition on supposed heretics.]
nonconformitynounA rejection of, or failure to conform to, a practice, standard, rule, or law.

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