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indulgencia.

Headword: 
indulgencia.
Principal English Translation: 

indulgence

Attestations from sources in English: 

oncan mochi tlacatl contennamiquia yn imatzin , ynic õcan ytechtzinco mocnopilhuiaya onpohualilhuitl yn tecentlapopolhuiliztli indulgencias. = Everyone there was kissing his hands, so that thereby they would attain forty days of general pardon, indulgences. (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 200–201.

ynic quemaçehuazque. yndulgencias yn huey perdon = so that they will obtain indulgences, [i.e,] great pardons
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 108–109.