Scholarship vs Indulgence - What's the difference?
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A grant-in-aid to a student.
The character or qualities of a scholar.
The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
(uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
(Australia, dated) The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.
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 scholarship and indulgence
is that scholarship is a grant-in-aid to a student while indulgence is the act of indulging.As a verb indulgence is
(Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence.scholarship
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Noun
(wikipedia scholarship) (en noun)Synonyms
* (money to assist a student to study) allowance, grant, stipend, subsidy, bursary * (character of a scholar) * (activity of a scholar) * (knowledge accrued by the activity of scholars)indulgence
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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.
