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Definition of indulgence

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Indulgence (n.) 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..

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Indulgement :: Indulgement (n.) Indulgence.

Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.

Saturnalia :: Saturnalia (n. pl.) Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence..

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) License; indulgence.

Sensual :: Sensual (a.) Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly..

Lecher :: Lecher (n.) A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women..

Lewd :: Lewd (superl.) Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous.

Free-living :: Free-living (n.) Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites.

Dissipation :: Dissipation (n.) A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness..

Cynic :: Cynic (n.) One who holds views resembling those of the Cynics; a snarler; a misanthrope; particularly, a person who believes that human conduct is directed, either consciously or unconsciously, wholly by self-interest or self-indulgence, and that appearances to the contrary are superficial and untrustworthy..

Jester :: "Jester (n.) A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk..

Faculty :: Faculty (n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation..

Luxury :: Luxury (n.) A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes..

Abstinent :: Abstinent (a.) Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate..

Temperate :: Temperate (v. t.) Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking..

Indulgency :: Indulgency (n.) Indulgence.

Incontinency :: Incontinency (n.) Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want of continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness..

Relaxation :: Relaxation (n.) Remission from attention and effort; indulgence in recreation, diversion, or amusement..

Virgin :: Virgin (n.) A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence.

Forbearance :: Forbearance (n.) The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering.