Word: indulgences
Category: indulgences
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Synonyms: indulgences
satisfaction, gratification, fulfillment, satiation, appeasement, accommodation, slaking, quenching, self-gratification, self-indulgence, overindulgence, intemperance, immoderation, excess, excessiveness, lack of restraint, extravagance, decadence, sybaritism, luxury, treat, nonessential, extra, frill, pampering, coddling, mollycoddling, spoiling, cosseting, babying, pity party, tolerance, forbearance, understanding, kindness, compassion, sympathy, forgiveness, leniency, mercy, clemency, liberality, lunacy, folly, foolery, craziness, tomfoolery, lenience
Translations: indulgences
The meaning and "use of": indulgences
- the action or fact of indulging. - indulgence in self-pity
- (in the Roman Catholic Church) a grant by the pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution. The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages. - The ‘treasures of the Church,’ out of which the Pope grants indulgences , are not sufficiently named or known among the people of Christ.
- an extension of the time in which a bill or debt has to be paid. - It is merely intended as an indulgence offered by the lender to the borrower.
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