Indulgence vs Impoverish - What's the difference?
indulgence | impoverish |
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
Make poor.
Weaken in quality; deprive of some strength or richness.
Become poor.
In transitive terms the difference between indulgence and impoverish
is that indulgence is (Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence while impoverish is weaken in quality; deprive of some strength or richness.As a noun indulgence
is the act of indulging.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)impoverish
English
Verb
(es)- ''That exuberant crop quickly impoverishes any fertile soil