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indulgence

English

Etymology

From Middle French indulgence, or its source, Latin indulgentia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?d?ld???ns/
  • Hyphenation: in?dul?gence

Noun

indulgence (countable and uncountable, plural indulgences)

  1. the act of indulging
    • 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals...
      will all they that either through indulgence to others or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance any thing that is less than a sincere, uniform resolution of new obedience
  2. tolerance
  3. catering to someone's every desire
  4. something in which someone indulges
  5. An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
    • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Goodness of God a Motive to Repentance
      If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
  6. (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.

Related terms

  • indulge
  • indulgent

Translations

Verb

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

French

Noun

indulgence f (plural indulgences)

  1. leniency, clemency
  2. (Roman Catholicism) indulgence

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amnesty

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French amnestie (Modern French amnistie), a borrowing from Latin amnestia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ???????? (amn?stía).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?æm.n?.sti/

Noun

amnesty (countable and uncountable, plural amnesties)

  1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
  2. An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.

Related terms

  • Amnesty International

Translations

Verb

amnesty (third-person singular simple present amnesties, present participle amnestying, simple past and past participle amnestied)

  1. To grant a pardon (to a group)

Translations

Further reading

  • amnesty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • amnesty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • amnesty at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • Matneys, Yetmans, maytens

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