Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Indulgence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Indulgence.
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- noun dated
indulgence
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Examples
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I will GLADLY give (and already have) to Mr. Obama's campaign but will not offer up one thin dime to pay for Hillary's self indulgency.
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The Broonie was surprisingly light in the mouth, but was a little dry in texture - something that the day or so of resting helped a little -so a generous topping of butter was a good addition to each slice, but for less indulgency serve with a cup of tea.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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The Broonie was surprisingly light in the mouth, but was a little dry in texture - something that the day or so of resting helped a little -so a generous topping of butter was a good addition to each slice, but for less indulgency serve with a cup of tea.
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I just wonder why these guys don't see a better future helping humanity rather than wasting their fortunes on self-indulgency--powder-puffing their enormous egos.
Reality Check The Daily Growler 2006
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What right have I to judge others severely, do you suppose, when I must ask for indulgency myself?
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I so easily become enwrapped in the soft wool of self-indulgency, and the cries from far and near cannot reach my easeful soul.
The Passion for Souls 1817-1893 1905
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There it was that I found it at last, after he was dead, in the midst of the north wilderness: in such a place, in such dismal circumstances, I was to read for the first time these idle, lying words of a Whig pamphleteer declaiming against indulgency to Jacobites: Another notorious Rebel, the Mr of Be, is to have his Title restored, the passage ran.
Passages at New York 1889
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I warn you, my lord, against this indulgency of evil feeling, said I. I know not to which it is more perilous, the soul or the reason; but you go the way to murder both.
Passages at New York 1889
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What right have I to judge others severely, do you suppose, when I must ask for indulgency myself?
A House of Gentlefolk Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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The Greek prime minister tried unsuccessfully to calm down the situation by promising that there would be ` ` no indulgency '' towards the policeman, who was immediately indicted for his act.
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