indulgenceとは意味・読み方・使い方

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
   • 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], OCLC 228724047:

     will all they that either through indulgence to others or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance any thing that is less than a sincere, uniform resolution of new obedience

   • 1922, Dhalla, Maneckji Nusservanji, Zoroastrian Civilization‎^[1], page 220:

     As indulgence in several wives depended mainly on the length of a man's purse, the poor naturally contented themselves with monogamy.

2. tolerance
3. catering to someone's every desire
4. something in which someone indulges
   • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 2, page 5:

     I made but one error—giving way to petulance in the earlier instance; that lost me the Prince of Conti. Temper is bourgeois indulgence, though I own to a predilection for it.

5. An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Goodness of God a Motive to Repentance

     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.

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