Noun

(en noun)

the act of indulging

* Hammond

They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.

tolerance

catering to someone's every desire

something in which someone indulges

An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.

* Rogers

If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.

(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:

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.

Noun

(en noun)

Joy; pleasure.

* Bible, Proverbs xviii. 2

A fool hath no delight in understanding.

* Shakespeare

Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.

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Something that gives great joy or pleasure.

* Milton:

Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight .

* (Greensleeves):

Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight,