Indulgence

Definitions

1. The act of indulging.
   countable, uncountable
2. Tolerance.
   countable, uncountable
3. The act of catering to someone's every desire.
   countable, uncountable
4. A wish or whim satisfied.
   countable, uncountable
5. Something in which someone indulges.
   countable, uncountable
6. An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
   countable, uncountable
7. A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

28 more languages

العربيةالإنغماسسماحصَكّ غُفْرَان

BosanskiAnepopustljivostпопустљивост

Češtinaodpustek

Danskaflad

Ελληνικάανοχήαπόλαυσηεπιείκειακανάκεμαπαραχάιδεμαπολυτέλειασυγχωροχάρτισυχωροχάρτι+ 5 more

Suomianehemmotteluhölläkätisyyslievitysmalttavaisuussuvaitsevaisuusviettelys+ 4 more

Gàidhligsochartruime

Galegoregalía

HrvatskiAnepopustljivostпопустљивост

Magyarbúcsúelnézésélvezetengedékenységhódolatszenvedélyszórakozás+ 4 more

Íslenskaaflát

Italianoindulgenzavizio

日本語耽溺

한국어면벌응득탐닉

Kurdîaneanêmusamaha

Latinaindulgentiavenia

Nederlandsaflaat

PolskiindulgencjaodpustrozpustaSodoma i Gomora+ 1 more

Portuguêsindulgênciaindulto

Românăindulgențăîngăduiretolerare

Русскийиндульгенцияотпуще́ние грехо́впотака́ниепотворствоснисходительностьснисхождениетерпимость+ 4 more

СрпскиAnepopustljivostпопустљивост

Svenskaavlateftergivenhetnjutning

ไทยใบบุญ

Tagalogindulhensiya

Türkçehoşgörümüsamahayarlıgama

Українськаіндульгенція

Tiếng Việtân xáơn xátha tộixá tội+ 1 more

Examples

“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.”

“"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."”

“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.”

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

“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⟳.”

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