indulgence
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒəns/
indulgence
- the act of indulging
- They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.
- tolerance
- catering to someone's every desire
- something in which someone indulges
- An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
- 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 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:
- French: indulgence
- German: Nachgiebigkeit, Nachsicht, Milde, Nachsichtigkeit
- Italian: vizio
- Portuguese: indulgência
- German: Duldsamkeit, Duldung
- Portuguese: indulgência
- Russian: снисхожде́ние
- Russian: потака́ние
- Italian: vizio
- German: Gnade, Gnadenbezeigung, Gefälligkeit
- Portuguese: indulgência
- French: indulgence
- German: Ablass
- Italian: indulgenza
- Portuguese: indulgência, indulto
- Russian: индульге́нция
- Spanish: indulgencia
indulgence (indulgences, present participle indulgencing; past and past participle indulgenced)
- (transitive, Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence
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