indulgence

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The act of indulging.

   • will all they that either through indulgence to others or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance any thing that is less than a sincere, uniform resolution of new obedience
   • As indulgence in several wives depended mainly on the length of a man's purse, the poor naturally contented themselves with monogamy.
2. 2

   Tolerance.

3. 3

   The act of catering to someone's every desire.

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   1. 4

      A wish or whim satisfied.

      • "In other words, the ONLY indulgences we'll be getting for a while is fixing your wardrobe. This means no new manga. No new games. Nothing. Get used to it."
   2. 5

      Something in which someone indulges.

      • I made but one error—giving way to petulance in the earlier instance; that lost me the Prince of Conti. Temper is bourgeois indulgence, though I own to a predilection for it.
   3. 6

      An indulgent act

      An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.

      • If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
   4. 7

      A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has…

      A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.

      • To understand how indulgences were intended to work depends on linking together a number of assumptions about sin and the afterlife, each of which individually makes considerable sense.
   5. 8

      To provide with an indulgence.

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