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An indulgence is something nice you let yourself have, even though you don't really need it — like a bar of chocolate after a hard day. It can also mean being too soft or too easy on someone, letting them do what they want without stopping them. In church history, an indulgence was a special paper the Catholic Church once sold, saying it took away some of the punishment for a sin — this practice made a lot of people angry a long time ago, and it is part of why the Protestant church started.
放縱；耽溺（宗教史上也指教會賣的「贖罪券」）
組成From Latin indulgere, 'to be kind, to give in to.' In + dulgere. Scholars are not fully sure what 'dulgere' meant on its own, so leave that part loose.
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- indulgentsame root — describes a person who lets themselves (or others) have what they want
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
indulgencenoun/ɪnˈdʌl.d͡ʒəns/
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The act of indulging.
- will all they that either through indulgence to others or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance any thing that is less than a sincere, uniform resolution of new obedience
- As indulgence in several wives depended mainly on the length of a man's purse, the poor naturally contented themselves with monogamy.
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Tolerance.
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The act of catering to someone's every desire.
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A wish or whim satisfied.
- "In other words, the ONLY indulgences we'll be getting for a while is fixing your wardrobe. This means no new manga. No new games. Nothing. Get used to it."
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Something in which someone indulges.
- I made but one error—giving way to petulance in the earlier instance; that lost me the Prince of Conti. Temper is bourgeois indulgence, though I own to a predilection for it.
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An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
- If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
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CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismA pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
- 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.
indulgenceverb/ɪnˈdʌl.d͡ʒəns/
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CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismTo provide with an indulgence.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。