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  • 131Pardoner’s Tale, The —    by Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1395)    The most often anthologized of CHAUCER’s CANTERBURY TALES, The Pardoner’s Tale is a sermon on greed that contains a grim exemplum (or illustrative story) demonstrating the theme that “avarice is the root of… …

    Encyclopedia of medieval literature

  • 132agitator — Synonyms and related words: activist, agent provocateur, agitprop, beater, blender, brawler, catalyst, cement mixer, churn, crucible, demagogue, eggbeater, emulsifier, exciter, extremist, firebrand, fomenter, frondeur, incendiary, inciter,… …

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