English-Thai Dictionary

indulgence

N การผ่อนผัน  การยินยอม ทำตาม ความประสงค์  acceptance gratification yieldingness kan-pon-pan

 

indulgence

N ความเมตตา  ความ ใจดี  mercy amnesty unforgiveness condemnation kwam-mead-ta

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INDULGENCE, INDULGENCY

n.Free permission to the appetites, humor, desires, passions or will to act or operate; forbearance of restraint or control. How many children are ruined by indulgence! Indulgence is not kindness or tenderness, but it may be the effect of one or the other, or of negligence. 1. Gratification; as the indulgence of lust or of appetite.
2. Favor granted; liberality; gratification.
If all these gracious indulgencies are without effect on us, we must perish in our folly.
3. In the Romish church, remission of the punishment due to sins, granted by the pope or church, and supposed to save the sinner from purgatory; absolution from the censures of the church and from all transgressions.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INDULGENCE

In *dul "gence, n. Etym: [L. indulgentia: cf. F. indulgence. ]

 

1. The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control. If I were a judge, that word indulgence should never issue from my lips. Tooke.They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less. Hammond.

 

2. An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification. If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly. Rogers.

 

3. (R. C. Ch. )

 

Defn: 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.

 

INDULGENCE

INDULGENCE In *dul "gence, v. t.

 

Defn: To grant an indulgence to.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

indulgence

in dul gence |inˈdəljəns ɪnˈdəlʤəns | ▶noun 1 the action or fact of indulging: indulgence in self-pity. • the state or attitude of being indulgent or tolerant: she regarded his affairs with a casual, slightly amused indulgence. • a thing that is indulged in; a luxury: Claire collects shoes —it is her indulgence. 2 chiefly historical (in the Roman Catholic Church ) a grant by the pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution. The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages. 3 an extension of the time in which a bill or debt has to be paid. ORIGIN late Middle English: via Old French from Latin indulgentia, from the verb indulgere (see indulge ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

indulgence

in |dul |gence |ɪnˈdʌldʒ (ə )ns | ▶noun 1 [ mass noun ] the action or fact of indulging: indulgence in self-pity. • the state or attitude of being indulgent or tolerant: she regarded his affairs with a casual, slightly amused indulgence. • [ count noun ] a thing that is indulged in; a luxury: Claire collects shoes —it is her indulgence. 2 chiefly historical (in the Roman Catholic Church ) a grant by the Pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution. The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages. 3 an extension of the time in which a bill or debt has to be paid. ORIGIN late Middle English: via Old French from Latin indulgentia, from the verb indulgere (see indulge ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

indulgence

indulgence noun 1 the indulgence of all his desires: satisfaction, gratification, fulfillment, satiation, appeasement; accommodation; slaking, quenching. ANTONYMS denial, withholding. 2 excessive indulgence contributed to his ill health: self-gratification, self-indulgence, overindulgence, intemperance, immoderation, excess, excessiveness, lack of restraint, extravagance, decadence; rare sybaritism. ANTONYMS moderation, restraint. 3 they viewed vacations as an indulgence: extravagance, luxury, treat, nonessential, extra, frill. ANTONYMS necessity. 4 his mother's indulgence made him ungovernable: pampering, coddling, mollycoddling, spoiling, cosseting, babying. ANTONYMS strictness. 5 I ask for your indulgence: tolerance, forbearance, understanding, kindness, compassion, sympathy, forgiveness, leniency, mercy, clemency, liberality. ANTONYMS severity, harshness.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

indulgence

indulgence noun 1 he squandered his money on the indulgence of all his desires: satisfaction, satisfying, gratification, gratifying, fulfilment, fulfilling, satiation, appeasement, assuagement, quenching, slaking; accommodation. ANTONYMS denial. 2 he took exercise as an antidote to excess indulgence: self-gratification, self-indulgence, overindulgence, intemperance, immoderation, immoderateness, dissipation, dissolution, dissoluteness, debauchery, excess, excessiveness, lack of restraint, prodigality, extravagance, decadence, pleasure-seeking, wantonness, lack of self-control; rare sybaritism. ANTONYMS moderation. 3 they viewed holidays abroad as an indulgence: extravagance, luxury, treat, comfort, non-essential, extra, frill. ANTONYMS necessity. 4 her indulgence left him spoilt: pampering, coddling, mollycoddling, cosseting, babying, mothering, nannying; spoiling, humouring, catering to someone's every whim; partiality. 5 his parents view his lapses with indulgence: tolerance, forbearance, humanity, compassion, kindness, understanding, sympathy, liberalness, liberality, forgiveness, leniency, lenience, clemency, mercy, mercifulness. ANTONYMS severity.

 

French Dictionary

indulgence

indulgence n. f. nom féminin Facilité à pardonner. : Les pécheurs auront besoin de son indulgence. SYNONYME clémence ; compréhension ; tolérance .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

indulgence

in dul gence /ɪndʌ́ldʒ (ə )ns /名詞 1 U 甘やかすこと ; 大目に見ること, 寛大, 許し (tolerance ).2 U «…に » ふけること, «…を » ほしいままにすること «in » , (飲食などへの )耽溺 （たんでき ）; 気まま, 放縦 ; C 道楽 ▸ constant indulgence in bad habits たえず悪癖にふけること .3 U 〘カトリック 〙贖宥 （しよくゆう ）, 免罪, 免償 ; C 免罪符 .4 U 〘英史 〙信教の自由 ▸ the Declaration of Indulgence 〘英史 〙信教自由令 〘1672年, 1687年に発布 〙.5 U 〘商 〙支払いの猶予 .