Crossword-Solution: INDULGENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Indulgence | n. | The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control. |
| Indulgence | n. | An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification. |
| Indulgence | n. | 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. |
| Indulgence | v. t. | To grant an indulgence to. |
We have 91 clues for the answer “INDULGENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Purchase made with mad money, say | 1 answer |
| Dark chocolate, to some | 1 answer |
| BENIGNNESS | 1 answer |
| BENIGNANCY | 1 answer |
| Act of humoring | 1 answer |
| indulging | 2 answers |
| mercifulness | 3 answers |
| ALL clear | 6 answers |
| drunkenness | 11 answers |
| imprimatur | 11 answers |
| incontinence | 12 answers |
| immoderation | 15 answers |
| Acquiescence | 17 answers |
| Mildness. | 17 answers |
| wastefulness | 18 answers |
| sympathy | 18 answers |
| indiscipline | 21 answers |
| extravagance | 22 answers |
| intemperance | 23 answers |
| dispensation | 23 answers |
| approbation | 24 answers |
| groaning board | 32 answers |
| Overabundance | 33 answers |
| good table | 34 answers |
| green light | 35 answers |
| Luxury | 35 answers |
| benignity | 39 answers |
| favor | 39 answers |
| unrestraint | 40 answers |
| condescension | 40 answers |
| safe conduct | 41 answers |
| kindliness | 41 answers |
| gentleness | 41 answers |
| high living | 41 answers |
| capitulation | 43 answers |
| exoneration | 44 answers |
| Lenience | 44 answers |
| toleration | 44 answers |
| sufferance | 45 answers |
| peace of mind | 46 answers |
| Liberality | 49 answers |
| tolerance | 50 answers |
| full life | 50 answers |
| Durability | 50 answers |
| absolution | 51 answers |
| Mercy! | 51 answers |
| Fondness | 51 answers |
| authorisation | 54 answers |
| forgiveness | 54 answers |
| frill | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with INDULGENCE (5)
Thus it shall befall Him who to worth in Women overtrusting Lets her Will rule; restraint she will not brook, And left to her self, if evil thence ensue, Shee first his weak indulgence will accuse.
And some—frequently those who are definable as middle-aged youths, though not always—profess to have attained the same knowledge by other and converse experiences, and jauntily continue their indulgence in such experiences with terrible effect.
Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the least flourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little tough wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch.
The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot, I saw my life as a whole: I followed it up from the days of childhood, when I had walked with my father’s hand, and through the self-denying toils of my professional life, to arrive again and again, with the same sense of unreality, at the damned horrors of the evening.
His indulgence in the pleasures of the table was an endearing bond between him and the women of his congregation.
Quotes with INDULGENCE (3)
Reality is subjective, and there’s an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as ‘important’ only if ‘tis sober and severe. Sure and still you’re right about your Cheerful Dum, only they’re not so much happy as lobotomized. But your Gloomy Smart are just as ridiculous. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like the…
Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.
When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1975–2015).