indulgence

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French indulgence, or its source, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin indulgentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒəns/

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• Hyphenation: in‧dul‧gence

Noun

indulgence (countable and uncountable, plural indulgences)

1. the act of indulging
   • Hammond

     They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.

2. tolerance
3. catering to someone's every desire
4. something in which someone indulges
5. An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
   • Rogers

     If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.

6. (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.

Related terms

• indulge
• indulgent

Translations

act of indulging

• Bulgarian: задоволяване (bg) (zadovoljavane)
• Finnish: hemmottelu (fi)
• French: indulgence (fr)
• Galician: indulxencia f
• German: Nachgiebigkeit (de) f, Nachsicht (de) f, Milde (de) f, Nachsichtigkeit f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: πλησμονή f (plēsmonḗ)

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• Ido: indulgo (io)
• Italian: vizio (it) m
• Maori: whakawairekatanga
• Portuguese: indulgência (pt) f
• Romanian: îngăduire (ro) f, tolerare (ro) f

tolerance

• Bulgarian: търпимост (bg) f (tǎrpimost)
• Finnish: suvaitsevaisuus (fi)
• Galician: indulxencia f
• German: Duldsamkeit f, Duldung (de) f
• Greek: ανοχή (el) f (anochí), επιείκεια (el) f (epieíkeia)
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• Portuguese: indulgência (pt) f
• Romanian: indulgență (ro) f
• Russian: снисхожде́ние (ru) n (snisxoždénije), снисходи́тельность (ru) f (snisxodítelʹnostʹ), терпи́мость (ru) f (terpímostʹ)
• Turkish: müsamaha (tr), hoşgörü (tr)

catering to someone's every desire

• Finnish: hemmottelu (fi)
• Greek: κανάκεμα (el) n (kanákema), παραχάιδεμα (el) n (paracháidema)
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• Russian: потака́ние (ru) n (potakánije), потво́рство (ru) n (potvórstvo)

something in which someone indulges

• Bulgarian: привилегия (bg) f (privilegija)
• Finnish: hemmottelu (fi), viettelys
• Greek: απόλαυση (el) f (apólafsi), πολυτέλεια (el) f (polytéleia)
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• Italian: vizio (it) m

indulgent act; favour granted; gratification

• Finnish: hemmottelu (fi)
• German: Gnade (de), Gnadenbezeigung, Gefälligkeit
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• Portuguese: indulgência (pt) f

pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory

• Bulgarian: индулгенция f (indulgencija)
• Czech: odpustek m
• Dutch: aflaat (nl) m
• Finnish: ane (fi), lievitys (fi)
• French: indulgence (fr)
• German: Ablass (de) m
• Greek: συγχωροχάρτι (el) n (synchorochárti), συχωροχάρτι (el) n (sychorochárti)
• Ido: induljenco (io)
• Italian: indulgenza (it)
• Korean: 면벌 (ko) (myeonbeol)
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• Macedonian: индулгенција f (indulgencija)
• Portuguese: indulgência (pt) f, indulto (pt) m
• Romanian: indulgență (ro) f
• Russian: индульге́нция (ru) f (indulʹgéncija), отпуще́ние грехо́в n (otpuščénije grexóv)
• Spanish: indulgencia (es) f
• Tagalog: indulhensiya
• Thai: ใบบุญ (bai-bun)
• Turkish: müsamaha (tr), hoşgörü (tr), yarlıgama (tr)

Verb

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