Moratorium vs Indulgence - What's the difference?
moratorium | indulgence |
(legal) An authorization to a debtor, permitting temporary suspension of payments.
A suspension of an ongoing activity.
* 1990 , Gerhard Falk, Murder, an Analysis of its Forms, Conditions, and Causes , McFarland.
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
As nouns the difference between moratorium and indulgence
is that moratorium is moratorium while indulgence is the act of indulging.As a verb indulgence is
(roman catholic church ) to provide with an indulgence.moratorium
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Canada may put a moratorium on cloning for research.
- It so happened that at that time the moratorium on the death penalty caused by the Supreme Court decision in the Furman case was still in effect.
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* (projectlink) * New Latin ----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.
