Noun

(subsidies)

Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

(dated) Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.

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.