indulgence
放纵,放任自流,纵容,放任
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Definitions
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- : the act or practice of indulging; gratification of desire.
- : the state of being indulgent.
- : indulgent allowance or tolerance.
- : a catering to someone's mood or whim; humoring: The sick man demanded indulgence as his due.
- : something indulged in: Her favorite indulgence was candy.
- : Roman Catholic Church. a partial remission of the temporal punishment, especially purgatorial atonement, that is still due for a sin or sins after absolution.Compare plenary indulgence.
- : English and Scottish History. a grant by the king to Protestant dissenters and Roman Catholics freeing them from certain penalties imposed, by legislation, because of their religion.
- : Commerce. an extension, through favor, of time for payment or performance.
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in·dul·genced, in·dul·genc·ing.
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Examples
After that indulgence, we decided to walk off some calories and took a stroll to Baltimore’s Harbor East neighborhood, about two miles south near the Inner Harbor.
Tastemade’s goal was to showcase Castello as an everyday indulgence.
She still prefers to serve it as a small single serving because anything more ruins the indulgence.
Of course you shouldn’t make choices that will cause financial stress later, but I’d encourage you to lean into indulgence, whatever that means for you.
You attend a performance twice a month, an indulgence which marks the passing of the weeks.
Three years ago, she moved to New Orleans, where, she says, she encountered a great culture of indulgence.
But even still, that little sip of indulgence from a mug or a glass tastes almost just as sweet.
The indulgence, however, does not apply to sins that have not yet been committed.
Jill also admitted to her past indulgence in the substance at a Led Zeppelin concert.
So the general posture of the adult world, in early 1964, was a kind of dismissive indulgence.
They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence.