indulgence /ɪnˈdʌl.d͡ʒəns/noun 7verb 1forms 3 noun7 •The act of indulging.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 — 1654 •The act of catering to someone's every desire. •An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly. — 1729 •A wish or whim satisfied."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." — 2013 •Something in which someone indulges.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. — 1834 •A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.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. — 2009 •Tolerance. verb1 •To provide with an indulgence. formsindulgenced · indulgencing · indulgences
