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

(dated) indulgence

*{{quote-book, year=1897, author=Ernest Renan, title=Recollections of My Youth, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=My amiability, which is in many cases the result of indifference; my indulgency , which is sincere enough, and is due to the fact that I see clearly how unjust men are to one another; my conscientious habits, which afford me real pleasure, and my infinite capacity for enduring ennui, attributable perhaps to my having been so well inoculated by ennui during my youth that it has never taken since, are all to be explained by the circle in which I lived, and the profound impressions which I received. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1898, author=Murat Halstead, title=The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The poor Tagalo carried with him a large collection of little books written by you, which were given him by his Priest, who told him they represented so much indulgency for his next life. }}