indulgence

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  1. noun The act or an instance of indulging; gratification: indulgence of every whim.
  2. noun The state of being indulgent.
  3. noun The act of indulging in something: indulgence in irresponsible behavior.
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  • If this indulgence is the work of God, He will make it manifest. —  The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
  • The price of that sort of self-indulgence has been the burst of the 1990s Dandys boomlet. —  DCist
  • The culture of over-indulgence, and pay later, mindset has decided to reveal it's consequences. —  Write where you are
  • This post seems like the the epitome of parental self-indulgence, as it is about my daughter's hair. —  BarrenAlbion
  • "I haven't been pitched out of a ticca-gharry It is doubtful whether the indulgence was altogether in the soda, which is, after all, ascetic in its quality, and only suitably effervescent, like ecclesiastical humour. —  Hilda A Story of Calcutta
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  1. from Middle English indulgence = French indulgence = Provencal indulgencia, endulgencia, endulgensia = Spanish Portuguese indulgencia = Italian indulgenza, from Latin indulgentia, from indulgen(t-)s, indulgent: see indulgent.
 

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