indulgences in English

noun

1

the action or fact of indulging.

indulgence in self-pity

synonyms: satisfaction, gratification, fulfillment, satiation, appeasement, accommodation, slaking, quenching, self-gratification, self-indulgence, overindulgence, intemperance, immoderation, excess, excessiveness, lack of restraint, extravagance, decadence, sybaritism, pampering, coddling, mollycoddling, spoiling, cosseting, babying, pity party

2

(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.

3

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.

noun

satisfaction, gratification, fulfillment, satiation, appeasement, accommodation, slaking, quenching
self-gratification, self-indulgence, overindulgence, intemperance, immoderation, excess, excessiveness, lack of restraint, extravagance, decadence, sybaritism
extravagance, 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
leniency, lenience
self-indulgence
pampering

Use "indulgences" in a sentence

1. What the Sale of Indulgences Revealed

2. Wessel openly called the sale of indulgences “a lie and an error.”

3. One, as with indulgences, is to assuage guilt.

4. Wessel challenged the sale of indulgences, approved by Pope Sixtus IV

5. (Laughter) And there were no indulgences around that I could buy.

6. Synonyms for Conveniences include amenities, comforts, facilities, services, advantages, extras, frills, indulgences, superfluities and accommodations

7. The Baccae are a fey race known for their wild indulgences and extremes of emotion

8. It might be an idea to detox after the indulgences of Christmas.

9. Bibelot offers everyday indulgences from unique gifts, sophisticated clothing and jewelry to paper and home goods

10. One hundred years earlier, the Czech religious reformer Jan Hus had condemned the sale of indulgences.

11. McNamara explains the meaning of the word basilica and the privileges or indulgences granted to minor Basilicas

12. With a family tradition dating back over a century, Azar Indulgences specializes in handcrafted, artisan Chocolates from Lebanon

13. Papal indulgences which required payment and which greatly increased papal revenues served the same purpose.

14. Bibelot offers everyday indulgences from unique gifts, sophisticated clothing and jewelry to paper and home goods

15. Hus spoke out against indulgences, but he could not carry with him the men of the university.

16. The starting-point for understanding indulgences is the abundance of God's mercy revealed in the Cross of Christ.

17. To vilify the ancient and heavenly act of smoking is to Belittle one of life's most wicked and pleasurable of indulgences

18. Friday will bring a 5-mile run, the extra half-mile my grueling expiation of any gastronomical indulgences during the week.

19. There was much learned discussion of the value of indulgences at the Vatican II Council, no small amount of it being adverse.

20. Dealers like Johann Tetzel, who acted as agent for Archbishop Albert of Mainz, carried on a booming trade selling indulgences to the common people.

21. However, it was said that this time could be shortened by indulgences granted on the pope’s authority in exchange for money.

22. Abstinence Psychology Self-denial; voluntarily refraining from indulgences (e.g., eating, drinking inebriants, sexual activity); doing without substances or activities on which the subject is physically or psychologically dependent.

23. Innumerable are the short ejaculatory prayers to which the Church has granted indulgences, all of which are applicable to the poor souls. . . .

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25. Their little souls were white as new-fallen snow and Bedight with indulgences and prayers.: For thy coat of mail, Bedight In thy spotless robe of white.

26. He dealt here with problems concerning ecclesiastical jurisdiction, penance, indulgences, crusades and pilgrimages, vows, excommunication, the general church council, marriage and divorce, and unity with the Greek Orthodox Church.

27. However, because Mercator had included in his book Luther’s protest against indulgences in 1517, Chronologia was put on the Catholic Church’s index of prohibited books.

28. He is a serial political apologist, saying sorry, sacrificing an aide and obliging his shadow cabinet to pay back their most egregious claims, like medieval Christians buying indulgences.

29. Protests against Rome began in earnest when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk and professor at the university of Wittenberg, called in 1517 for a reopening of the debate on the sale of indulgences.

30. These indulgences, given in return for money payments, almsgiving or other kinds of offerings, provide that one’s own soul or the soul of a deceased relative or friend be spared all or part of its destined punishment in purgatory. . . .

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