indulgencies
- plural of indulgency.
Example Sentences
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There’s little doubt that Mr. Hopper’s indulgencies took their toll, but if “The Last Movie” had made the money, you might be reading a different story.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2010
Her hair was restrained and disciplined—she could not extract from it any waves or soft indulgencies.
From The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Walpole, Hugh, Sir
They must give the pregnant women more indulgencies.
From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume I by Clarkson, Thomas
Having been early left an orphan by both parents, he received an hardy and robust education, not tempered by the elegancies of literature, nor much allayed by the indulgencies of natural affection.
From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William
Henrietta was then obliged to go again to her mother, where, though deprived of all the indulgencies to which she was now become familiar, she was not more hurt by the separation than Mr Arnott.
From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny
