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Indulgence

Indulgence Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Indulgence? [n] foolish or senseless behavior [n] the act of indulging or gratifying a desire [n] a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; "too much indulgence spoils a child" [n] an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires Synonyms \| Synonyms for Indulgence: folly \| foolery \| humoring \| indulging \| lenience \| leniency \| pampering \| self-indulgence \| tomfoolery Related Terms \| Find terms related to Indulgence: acceptance \| accommodatingness \| agreeableness \| allowance \| attentiveness \| benevolence \| blank check \| carte blanche \| charitableness \| charity \| coddling \| complaisance \| concern \| condonation \| connivance \| considerateness \| consideration \| copyright \| cosseting \| crapulence \| crapulency \| crapulousness \| delicacy \| dispensation \| disregard \| drunkenness \| easiness \| endurance \| excess \| excessiveness \| extravagance \| favor \| favoring \| forbearance \| forbearing \| forbearingness \| forgiveness \| forgivingness \| fortitude \| franchise \| freedom \| generousness \| gluttony \| grant \| gratification \| heedfulness \| helpfulness \| humoring \| immoderacy \| immoderateness \| immoderation \| immunity \| incontinence \| indiscipline \| inordinacy \| inordinateness \| intemperance \| intemperateness \| kindness \| lenience \| leniency \| lenity \| liberty \| license \| longanimity \| long-sufferance \| long-suffering \| luxury \| magnanimity \| mindfulness \| mollycoddling \| obliging \| obligingness \| overdoing \| overindulgence \| overlooking \| overpermissiveness \| pampering \| patent \| patience \| patience of Job \| patientness \| permissiveness \| perseverance \| pleasing \| privilege \| prodigality \| profligacy \| regard \| regardfulness \| self-control \| self-gratification \| self-indulgence \| self-satisfaction \| solicitousness \| solicitude \| special favor \| spoiling \| stoicism \| sufferance \| sweet reasonableness \| swinishness \| tact \| tactfulness \| thought \| thoughtfulness \| tolerance \| toleration \| too much \| too-muchness \| treat \| unconstraint \| uncontrol \| understanding \| unrestraint \| unrevengefulness \| waiting game \| waiting it out \| warrant \| winking See Also \| buffoonery \| caper \| clowning \| excess \| extravagance \| frivolity \| frolic \| gambol \| gratification \| harlequinade \| indiscipline \| luxury \| orgy \| overindulgence \| permissiveness \| play \| prank \| romp \| softness \| tolerance \| undiscipline Indulgence In Webster's Dictionary \Indul"gence\, n. [L. indulgentia: cf. F. indulgence.] 1. The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control. If I were a judge, that word indulgence should never issue from my lips. --Tooke. They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less. --Hammond. 2. An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification. If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly. --Rogers. 3. (R. C. Ch.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory. \Indul"gence\, v. t. To grant an indulgence to.

Indulgence Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Indulgence?

[n] foolish or senseless behavior
[n] the act of indulging or gratifying a desire
[n] a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; "too much indulgence spoils a child"
[n] an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires

Indulgence In Webster's Dictionary

\In*dul"gence\, n. [L. indulgentia: cf. F.
indulgence.]
1. The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being
   indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control.

         If I were a judge, that word indulgence should never
         issue from my lips.                   --Tooke.

         They err, that through indulgence to others, or
         fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for
         repentance anything less.             --Hammond.

2. An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification.

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

3. (R. C. Ch.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to
   sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere
   repentance; absolution from the censures and public
   penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of
   justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ
   and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It
   is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the
   punishment of purgatory.


\In*dul"gence\, v. t.
To grant an indulgence to.

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