indulgence
indulgence is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 39 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification. If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly. Rogers.
- 2.(R. C. Ch.) 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.
- 3.To grant an indulgence to.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- allow
- bear
- clemency
- clement
- compassion
- compassionate
- easy-going
- favor
- forbearance
- forbearing
- gentle
- gentleness
- give
- have
- his
- indulge
- indulgency
- indulgent
- lenience
- leniency
- lenient
- lenity
- long-suffering
- mercy
- mild
- mildness
- milk
- moderation
- one
- own
- quarter
- soft
- spoil
- tolerance
- tolerant
- tolerate
- toleration
- way
- with
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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