indulgence

IPA: ɪndˈʌɫdʒʌns

noun

  • The act of indulging.
  • Tolerance.
  • The act of catering to someone's every desire.
  • A wish or whim satisfied.
  • Something in which someone indulges.
  • An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
  • (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.

verb

  • (transitive, Roman Catholicism) to provide with an indulgence
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Examples of "indulgence" in Sentences

  • This indulgence is applicable only to the souls in purgatory.
  • On the other days of the year this indulgence is apartial one.
  • On the other days of the year this indulgence is a partial one.
  • This indulgence is already contained in the apostolic constitution, Indulgentiarum doctrina, norm 15.
  • This indulgence is a plenary one from November 1 through November 8 and can be gained on each one of these days.
  • This indulgence is already contained in the apostolic constitution, Indulgentiarum doctrina, norm 15. it is included here in light of the Sacred Penitentiary's deliberations since the constitution was issued.
  • As he declared in the approval ratings Bush's comments are in the category of "who cares what this self centered jerk thinks" The bush clan just will never get the point, after all self indulgence is a sickness.
  • One could make the case that just as drugs are addictive, and require the addict to partake in more and more powerful drugs to achieve the same high, even so sexual indulgence is an addiction requiring new highs, with homosexuality, bestiality, pedophilia, etc. merely variants of the ‘drugs’ required to achieved said highs.

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