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Leniency vs Indulgence - What's the difference?

leniency | indulgence |

As nouns the difference between leniency and indulgence

is that leniency is the quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case while indulgence is the act of indulging.

As a verb indulgence is

(roman catholic church ) to provide with an indulgence.

leniency

English

Noun

  • The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case.
    • The convicted felon asked for leniency , but because the crime was so heinous the judge refused and gave the maximum sentence.
  • An act of being lenient.
    • Derived terms
    * leniency application * leniency applicant * leniency policy * Leniency Notice * Leniency Program

    indulgence

    English

    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.

    Related terms

    * indulge * indulgent

    Verb

    (indulgenc)
  • (Roman Catholic Church ) to provide with an indulgence