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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 Indulgences from wikipedia
- late
Middle Ages,
indulgences were used to
support charities for the
public good,
including hospitals. However, the
abuse of
indulgences for almsgiving,...
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value of
indulgences. They
should be
taught that
giving to the poor is
incomparably more
important than
buying indulgences, that
buying an
indulgence rather...
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Declaration of
Indulgence may
refer to:
Declaration of
Indulgence (1672) by
Charles II of
England in
favour of
nonconformists and
Catholics Declaration...
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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...
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indulgences in Germany.
Tetzel was
known for
granting indulgences on
behalf of the
Catholic Church in
exchange for
tithes to the Church.
Indulgences grant...
- It
stresses good
works and
sincere repentance over
indulgences, with
Luther criticizing indulgences as non-scriptural and the
Catholic clergy as being...
- Dept. of
Printed Books. p. 15. "
Indulgences".
British Library Treasures in Full. Janey, Ing. "The
Mainz Indulgences Of 1454/5" (PDF). The
British Library...
- (2003). "
Indulgence, Crusade".
Encyclopedia of the Crusades.
Greenwood Press. pp. 165–166. ISBN 0313316597. Bird,
Jessalynn (2006). "
Indulgences and Penance"...
- (The
first four are
common to all
plenary indulgences.) The
statement made by some, that the
jubilee indulgence,
being a
culpa et a paena, did not of old...
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Indulgentarium Doctrina is an
apostolic constitution about indulgences issued by Pope Paul VI on 1
January 1967. It
responds to
suggestions made at the...
