indult
English
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Noun
indult (plural indults)
- (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.
- 2015 August 27, Ross Douthat, “Catholic Exceptions and Catholic Rules”, in New York Times Opinion Pages, retrieved 2021-06-03:
- That’s why, for instance, most American Catholics now receive communion in the hand (permission for which was originally granted as an “indult,” an exception), […]
Catalan
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Further reading
- “indult” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “indult” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Further reading
- “indult”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈindult]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: in‧dult
Romanian
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