Indulgence vs Consideration - What's the difference?
indulgence | consideration |
the act of indulging
* Hammond
tolerance
catering to someone's every desire
something in which someone indulges
An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
* Rogers
(Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 555:
(Roman Catholic Church ) to provide with an indulgence
The thought process of considering, of taking everything into account.
Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
The tendency to consider others.
A payment or other recompense for something done.
(legal) A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
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Importance, claim to notice, regard.
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As nouns the difference between indulgence and consideration
is that indulgence is the act of indulging while consideration is consideration (the process of considering).As a verb indulgence
is (roman catholic church ) to provide with an indulgence.indulgence
English
Noun
(en noun)- They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.
- 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.
Verb
(indulgenc)consideration
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''After much consideration, I have decided to stay.
- ''You showed remarkable consideration in giving up your place for your friend.
- ''Will you noisy children show some consideration and stop your infernal screaming? I'm trying to study!
- ''Sure I'll move my car, but only for a consideration .
- [...] settled down on a small property he had near Quimper to live for the rest of his days in peace; but the failure of an attorney left him suddenly penniless, and neither he nor his wife was willing to live in penury where they had enjoyed consideration .