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Indulgence
Indulgence In*dul"gence, v. t.
To grant an indulgence to.
Indulgence
Indulgence In*dul"gence, n. [L. indulgentia: cf. F.
indulgence.]
1. The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being
indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control.
If I were a judge, that word indulgence should never
issue from my lips. --Tooke.
They err, that through indulgence to others, or
fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for
repentance anything less. --Hammond.
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.
Meaning of INDULGENCE from wikipedia
- In the
teaching of the
Catholic Church, an
indulgence (Latin: indulgentia, from indulgeo, 'permit') is "a way to
reduce the
amount of
punishment one has...
- The Ninety-five
Theses or Dis****tion on the
Power and
Efficacy of
Indulgences is a list of
propositions for an
academic dis****tion
written in 1517 by...
-
Mindless Self
Indulgence (often
referred to as MSI) is an
American electropunk band
formed in New York City in 1997.
Their music has a
mixed style which...
-
Declaration of
Indulgence may
refer to:
Declaration of
Indulgence (1672) by
Charles II of
England in
favour of
nonconformists and
Catholics Declaration...
- for
gaining the
Roman jubilee indulgence. In 1400 so many
people came to Rome that Pope
Boniface IX
granted the
indulgence again,
though he had not decreed...
- programmer, and
primary songwriter of the
electropunk band
Mindless Self
Indulgence,
which he co-founded in 1997.
James Euringer was born in New York City...
- In the
history of the
Catholic Church, a
crusade indulgence was any
indulgence—remission from the
penalties imposed by penance—granted to a
person who...
- The
Declaration of
Indulgence was
Charles II of England's
attempt to
extend religious liberty to
Protestant nonconformists and
Roman Catholics in his realms...
- The
Sisters of
Perpetual Indulgence (SPI), also
called Order of
Perpetual Indulgence (OPI), is a charitable, protest, and
street performance movement...
- Lost
Indulgence (Chinese: 秘岸; pinyin: mì àn) (also
known as Lost,
Indulgence or Lost·
Indulgence) is a 2008
Chinese film
directed by
Zhang Yibai and written...
