indulgence
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English indulgence, indulgens, from Middle French indulgence and its source, Latin indulgentia.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ɪnˈdʌl.d͡ʒəns/
indulgence
- The act of indulging.
- 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC ↗:
- 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
- Tolerance.
- The act of catering to someone's every desire.
- A wish or whim satisfied.
- Something in which someone indulges.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC ↗, page 5 ↗:
- 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.
- An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Goodness of God a Motive to Repentance:
- If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
- (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, published 2010, page 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.
- French: indulgence
- German: Nachgiebigkeit, Nachsicht, Milde, Nachsichtigkeit
- Italian: vizio
- Portuguese: indulgência
- German: Duldsamkeit, Duldung
- Portuguese: indulgência
- Russian: снисхожде́ние
- German: Verwöhnen, Verwöhnung
- Russian: потака́ние
- German: Gnade, Gnadenbezeigung, Gefälligkeit
- Portuguese: indulgência
- French: indulgence
- German: Ablass
- Italian: indulgenza
- Portuguese: indulgência, indulto
- Russian: индульге́нция
- Spanish: indulgencia
indulgence (indulgences, present participle indulgencing; simple past and past participle indulgenced)
- (transitive, Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence
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