indulgenceとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒəns/
• ハイフネーション: in‧dul‧gence

名詞

indulgence (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 indulgences)

1. the act of indulging
   • Hammond

     They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.

2. tolerance
3. catering to someone's every desire
4. something in which someone indulges
5. An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
   • Rogers

     If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.

6. (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 555:

     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.

関連する語

• indulge
• indulgent

動詞

indulgence (三人称単数 現在形 indulgences, 現在分詞 indulgencing, 過去形および過去分詞形 indulgenced)

1. (transitive) (Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence