2. An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification.
If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
Rogers. 3. (R. C. Ch.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted
by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment
of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul
through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory.
Indulgence
(In*dul"gence) v. t. To grant an indulgence to.
Indulgency
(In*dul"gen*cy) n. Indulgence. Dryden.
Indulgent
(In*dul"gent) a. [L. indulgens, -entis, p. pr. of indulgere: cf. F. indulgent. See Indulge.]
Prone to indulge; yielding to the wishes, humor, or appetites of those under one's care; compliant; not
opposing or restraining; tolerant; mild; favorable; not severe; as, an indulgent parent. Shak.
The indulgent censure of posterity.
Waller.
The feeble old, indulgent of their ease.
Dryden. Indulgential
(In`dul*gen"tial) a. Relating to the indulgences of the Roman Catholic Church. Brevint.
Indulgently
(In*dul"gent*ly) adv. In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably. Dryden.
Indulger
(In*dul"ger), n. One who indulges. W. Montagu.
Indulgiate
(In*dul"gi*ate) v. t. To indulge. [R.] Sandys.
