pardoner

Noun

1. One who pardons.
2. In medieval Catholicism, a person licensed to grant papal pardons or indulgences.
   • […] old men, cheated by their wives and daughters, pillaged by their sons, and imposed on by their domestics, a braggadocia captain, a knavish pardoner or quaestionary, a country bumpkin and a wanton city dame. - 1820,...
   • 1917, Catholic Encyclopedia, "Collections" http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04104b.htm These grants of Indulgence were often entrusted to preachers of note ("Pardoners") who carried them from town to town, collecting...