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Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1648 a remission of the entire temporal punishment for sin

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Plenary Ple"na*ry, a. [LL. plenarius, fr. L. plenus full. See Plenty.] Full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license; plenary authority. A treatise on a subject should be plenary or full. --I. Watts. Plenary indulgence (R. C. Ch.), an entire remission of temporal punishment due to, or canonical penance for, all sins. Plenary inspiration. (Theol.) See under Inspiration.