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Penitentials

Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A compilation or list of sins and other penances, compiled in the Eastern Church and in the extreme west about the sixth century. Stubbs, Canon Law, in 1 Sel. Essays in Anglo-Amer. L. H. 252.