indulgence
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Etymology edit
From Middle English indulgence, indulgens, from Middle French indulgence and its source, Latin indulgentia.
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indulgence (countable and uncountable, plural indulgences)
- The act of indulging.
- 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
- 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
- 1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization[1], page 220:
- As indulgence in several wives depended mainly on the length of a man's purse, the poor naturally contented themselves with monogamy.
- Tolerance.
- The act of catering to someone's every desire.
- A wish or whim satisfied.
- Something in which someone indulges.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 5:
- 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.
- An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Goodness of God a Motive to Repentance:
- If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
- (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 555:
- 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.
Hyponyms edit
- (pardon from purgatory): plenary indulgence, partial indulgence
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act of indulging
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tolerance
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catering to someone's every desire
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something in which someone indulges
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indulgent act; favour granted; gratification
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pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory
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Verb edit
indulgence (third-person singular simple present indulgences, present participle indulgencing, simple past and past participle indulgenced)
- (transitive, Roman Catholicism) to provide with an indulgence
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indulgence f (plural indulgences)
Further reading edit
- “indulgence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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