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Princeton's WordNet 3. Wiktionary 5. Etymology: From indulgence, or its source, indulgentia. Webster Dictionary 4. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory Etymology: [L. Freebase 0. The Nuttall Encyclopedia 0. How to pronounce indulgence? Alex US English. David US English. Mark US English. Daniel British. Libby British. All rights reserved. Filters 0. Words form: indulgenced indulgences indulgencing. See word origin. The act of indulging oneself, or giving way to one's own desires.
The definition of indulgence is the act of giving way to one's desires, something granted as a privilege or something that is enjoyed out of gratification. An example of indulgence is eating an extra truffle.
They are not compelled day after day to suffer the indulgences of other cruel and rather selfish people. Reckon up your deficiencies and petty indulgences as an accountant would your losses, and put them right and keep them right.
The average wage is one which does not permit of great indulgences or a large measure of savings. If we are being rather harsh, the key issue here is that those indulgences cannot continue indefinitely. The unfortunate fact remains that it is from the practice of such indulgences as this that the courts derive most of their work.
There are what are known as first-class misdemeanants, and indulgences are given to many persons who fall into the class of political offenders.
What is the use of telling that to a poor boy, who never got a shilling for any of those occasional little indulgences to which he is perfectly entitled? See all examples of indulgence. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Translations of indulgence in Chinese Traditional. See more. Need a translator? Translator tool.
What is the pronunciation of indulgence? Browse inductive. So the general posture of the adult world, in early , was a kind of dismissive indulgence. They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence. Hexam watched her with an amused indulgence that in no wise tempered his mounting admiration. One would imagine, to hear these p. He glanced up and saw the face of the Bruder watching him with a smile of patient indulgence.
Here is Christianity with its marvellous parable of the Prodigal Son to teach us indulgence and pardon. In the Roman Catholic Church , a declaration by church authorities that those who say certain prayers or do good deeds will have some or all of their punishment in purgatory remitted.
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