'Indulgence' definitions:
Definition of 'indulgence'
From: WordNet
noun
An inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires [syn: indulgence, self-indulgence]
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A disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; "too much indulgence spoils a child" [syn: indulgence, lenience, leniency]
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The remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution; "in the Middle Ages the unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners became a widespread abuse"
Definition of 'Indulgence'
From: GCIDE
- Indulgence \In*dul"gence\, v. t. To grant an indulgence to. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Indulgence'
From: GCIDE
- Indulgence \In*dul"gence\, n. [L. indulgentia: cf. F. indulgence.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control. [1913 Webster]
- If I were a judge, that word indulgence should never issue from my lips. --Tooke. [1913 Webster]
- They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less. --Hammond. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification. [1913 Webster]
- If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'indulgence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- long-sufferance,
- long-suffering,
- longanimity,
- 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