Definition of Indulgence

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Indulgence

The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control.

An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification.

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.

To grant an indulgence to.

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Indulgence Quotations

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Saadi

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
Bryant H. McGill

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.
Lajos Kossuth

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
Calista Flockhart

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
Charles Williams

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
Samuel E. Morison

Indulgence Translations

indulgence in Dutch is aflaat
indulgence in French is indulgence
indulgence in German is Nachsicht, Nachgiebigkeit
indulgence in Italian is indulgenza
indulgence in Latin is obsequium, venia, clementia
indulgence in Spanish is sufrimiento, indulgencia

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