Word Meanings - INDULGENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Indulgence. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to INDULGENCY)

• INDULGENCE
  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
• SELF-INDULGENCE
  Indulgence of one's appetites, desires, or inclinations; -- the opposite of self-restraint, and self-denial.