Definizione monolingua

indulgence

indulgence (third-person singular simple present indulgences, present participle indulgencing, simple past and past participle indulgenced)

1. (transitive) (Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence

indulgence (plural indulgences)

1. the act of indulging
2. tolerance
3. catering to someones every desire
4. something in which someone indulges
5. (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.

Definizione dizionario indulgence

	indulgenza
	a pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory

	vizio
	the act of indulging
	something in which someone indulges

condiscendenza

debolezza

perdono

Altri significati:

catering to someone's every desire

(transitive) ( '''Roman Catholic Church''' ) to provide with an indulgence

(Roman Catholic Church) a pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution