indulgency

American  

[in-duhl-juhn-see] / ɪnˈdʌl dʒən si /

noun

plural

indulgencies

1. indulgence.

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Etymology

Origin of indulgency

1540–50; < Latin indulgentia; indulge, -ency

Example Sentences

Max Schindelberger's smile took on the quality of indulgency as he advanced slowly toward B. Lesengeld.

From Project Gutenberg

“I warn you, my lord, against this indulgency of evil feeling,” said I. “I know not to which it is more perilous, the soul or the reason; but you go the way to murder both.”

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There it 211 was that I found it at last, after he was dead, in the midst of the north wilderness: in such a place, in such dismal circumstances, I was to read for the first time these idle, lying words of a Whig pamphleteer declaiming against indulgency to Jacobites:—“Another notorious Rebel, the M——r of B——e, is to have his Title restored,” the passage ran.

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After she had made vain attempts to moderate it, in blotting Agnes out of his Heart, seeing that his Disease was incurable, she made him understand, that so long as Constantia should not be jealous, there were no hopes: 241 That if Agnes should once be suspected by her, she would not fail of abandoning her, and that then it would be easy to get Satisfaction, the Prince being now so proud of Constantia’s Indulgency.

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My amiability, which is in many cases the result of indifference; my indulgency, which is sincere enough, and is due to the fact that I see clearly how unjust men are to one another; my conscientious habits, which afford me real pleasure, and my infinite capacity for enduring ennui, attributable perhaps to my having been so well inoculated by ennui during my youth that it has never taken since, are all to be explained by the circle in which I lived, and the profound impressions which I received.

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