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Webster 1913 Edition
Indulgence
In-dul′gence
,Noun.
[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
,Verb.
T.
To grant an indulgence to.
Webster 1828 Edition
Indulgence
INDUL'GENCE
Definition 2024
indulgence
indulgence
English
Noun
indulgence (countable and uncountable, plural indulgences)
- the act of indulging
- Hammond
- They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.
- Hammond
- tolerance
- catering to someone's every desire
- something in which someone indulges
- An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
- Rogers
- If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
- Rogers
- (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 555:
- 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, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 555:
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Translations
act of indulging
tolerance
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catering to someone's every desire
something in which someone indulges
An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification
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pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory
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Verb
indulgence (third-person singular simple present indulgences, present participle indulgencing, simple past and past participle indulgenced)
- (transitive) (Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence