indulgence
/ɪnˈdʌl.d͡ʒəns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.19 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "will all they that either through indulgence to others or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance any thing that is less than a sincere, uniform resolution of new obedience"
- "As indulgence in several wives depended mainly on the length of a man's purse, the poor naturally contented themselves with monogamy."
- ""In other words, the ONLY indulgences we'll be getting for a while is fixing your wardrobe. This means no new manga. No new games. Nothing. Get used to it.""
- "I made but one error—giving way to petulance in the earlier instance; that lost me the Prince of Conti. Temper is bourgeois indulgence, though I own to a predilection for it."
- "If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English indulgence, indulgens, from Middle French indulgence and its source, Latin indulgentia.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: indulgence, indulgentia