- 1放縱；耽溺（宗教史上也指教會賣的「贖罪券」）
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.
From the word’s history
From Middle English and Middle French indulgence, from Latin indulgentia.
源自拉丁文 indulgentia「寬容、縱容」，經法文進入英文。
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.
同家族的字
- 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，摘錄並精簡格式，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.
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