indulgence

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Middle French indulgence, or its source, Latin indulgentia.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒəns/, X-SAMPA: /In"dVldZ@ns/
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  • Hyphenation: in‧dul‧gence

Noun [edit]

indulgence (plural indulgences)

  1. the act of indulging
  2. tolerance
  3. catering to someone's every desire
  4. something in which someone indulges
  5. (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.

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Verb [edit]

indulgence (third-person singular simple present indulgences, present participle indulgencing, simple past and past participle indulgenced)

  1. (transitive) (Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence