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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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Woolgathering :: Woolgathering (n.) Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.

Humor :: Humor (v. t.) To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.

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..

Continent :: Continent (a.) Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity..

Lechery :: Lechery (n.) Free indulgence of lust; lewdness.

Misericordia :: Misericordia (n.) An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.

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

Weasy :: Weasy (a.) Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous.

Sensuality :: Sensuality (n.) The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness.

Debauchery :: Debauchery (n.) Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness..

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..

Weasiness :: Weasiness (n.) Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence.

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..

Epicurean :: Epicurean (n.) One given to epicurean indulgence.

Cynical :: Cynical (a.) Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature..

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

Temperance :: Temperance (v. t.) Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors..

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

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