indulgences

Noun

indulgence (countable and uncountable, plural indulgences)

1. The act of indulging.
   • 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 obedience1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC
2. Tolerance.
3. The act of catering to someone's every desire.
4. A wish or whim satisfied.
   • "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."2013, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain, volume 1, →ISBN, page 199
5. Something in which someone indulges.
   • 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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 5
6. An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
   • If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.a. 1729, John Rogers, The Goodness of God a Motive to Repentance

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