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Peter pence

Variant of Peter's pence

  1. an annual tax, orig. of one penny, paid to the papal see by certain English property owners before the Reformation
  2. an annual voluntary donation made by Catholics everywhere to the papal see

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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