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Indulgence

noun

An inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires. Synonym: self-indulgence.

A disposition to yield to the wishes of someone. Synonyms: lenience, leniency.

The act of indulging or gratifying a desire. Synonyms: humoring, indulging, pampering.

Foolish or senseless behavior. Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, lunacy, tomfoolery.

The remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution.

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"Indulgence" Quotes from Famous Books

... enough, and yet, in point of fact, all this was sheer bravado on his part. He knew better than any one else, on what a frail and uncertain basis his brilliant existence was established. Certainly, society does show great indulgence to people of doubtful reputation. It shuts its eyes and refuses to look or listen. But this is all the more reason why it should be pitiless when a person's guilt is positively established. Thus, although he assumed an air of insolent security, the "viscount" anxiously watched ...

— The Count's Millions - Volume 1 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau

... was merely startled by the superficial and literal meaning of this declaration. It was obviously unreasonable, the mere cry of exaggerated grief. He threw over it the mantle of his marital indulgence. The mind of Mr Verloc lacked profundity. Under the mistaken impression that the value of individuals consists in what they are in themselves, he could not possibly comprehend the value of Stevie in the eyes of Mrs Verloc. She was taking it ...

— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad

... express your life will probably never down, for the reason that men vary in temperament and inclination. Some men have no capacity for certain sins of the flesh; others there be, who, having lost their inclination for sensuality through too much indulgence, turn ascetics. Yet all sermons have but one theme: how shall life be expressed? Between asceticism and indulgence men and ...

— Love, Life & Work • Elbert Hubbard

... was little time or space for the indulgence of private sorrows. From morning till night there was always some immediate practical demand on one's attention; and Susy was beginning to see how, in contracted households, children may play a part less ...

— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton

... of the profession of a Soldier.... Laughter and approbation attend his greatest excesses; and being governed visibly by no settled bad principle or ill design, fun and humour account for and cover all. By degrees, however, and thro' indulgence, he acquires bad habits, becomes an humourist, grows enormously corpulent, and falls into the infirmities of age; yet never quits, all the time, one single levity or vice of youth, or loses any of that cheerfulness of mind which had enabled ...

— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin

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