different between kindliness vs indulgence

English

Etymology

From kindly +? -ness.

Noun

kindliness (countable and uncountable, plural kindlinesses)

1. The state of feeling kindly towards someone or something, or the actions inspired thereby.

   Elmo looked upon his only granddaughter with kindliness, and often relented to her demands for chocolate.

   • 1561, Thomas Norton, The Tragedie of Gorboduc, London: William Griffith, 1565, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     A father: no:

     In kynde a Father, but not in kyndlynes.

   • 1774, Henry Home, Lord Kames, Sketches of the History of Man, Edinburgh: A. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1788, Volume 3, Sketch 10, Public Police with respect to the Poor, pp. 98-99,^[2]

     Creatures loathsome by disease or nastiness, affect the air in a poor-house; and have little chance for life, without more care and kindliness than can be expected from servants, rendered callous by continual scenes of misery.

   • 1888, Thomas Hardy, “The Withered Arm,” Chapter 2,^[3]

     The dairyman, who rented the cows of Lodge, and knew perfectly the tall milkmaid's history, with manly kindliness always kept the gossip in the cow-barton from annoying Rhoda.

   • 1924, H. G. Wells, The Dream, Part One, Chapter 4, §1,^[4]

     Suddenly I forgot the bickerings of my uncle and brother and was overcome with tenderness and grief for my father. A rush from my memory of many clumsy kindlinesses, a realisation of the loss of his companionship came to me.

   • 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, Part One, Chapter 2,^[5]

     “It’s lying you are!” said Gerald, and then, peering at her stricken face, he added in a burst of kindliness: “I’m sorry, daughter. But after all, you are nothing but a child and there’s lots of other beaux.”

2. (archaic) Favourableness; mildness.
   • 1683, Roger Bacon, The Cure of Old Age, and Preservation of Youth, translated by Richard Browne, London: Tho. Flesher & Edward Evets, Chapter 16, p. 137,^[6]

     To the end that Kindliness of Nature may endure, chafing with Oyl in a moderate Quantity and Quality is very good for Men of decrepit Age, and for those that are growing Old.

   • 1798, Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, Canterbury: W. Bristow, 2nd edition, Volume 6, “Newington,” p. 42,^[7]

     […] great part of it […] was formerly planted with orchards of apples, cherries, and other kind of fruit, but these falling to decay, and the high price of hops yielding a more advantageous return, many of them were displanted, and hops raised in their stead, the scite of an old orchard, being particularly adapted for the purpose, which, with the kindliness of the soil for that plant, produced large crops of it […]

   • 1803, The Farmer’s Magazine, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Volume 4, No. 15, August 1803, Review of agricultural publications, “General View of the Agriculture of the Counties of Roxburgh and Selkirk,” p. 318,^[8]

     The one third of the sheep kept are of the short-bodied, black-faced, coarse-wooled kinds; which our author justly celebrates, as highly adapted for coarser pasture, from their hardiness and superior kindliness in feeding.

   • 1805, James Hamilton, Observations on the Utility and Administration of Purgative Medicines in Several Diseases, Edinburgh: James Simpson, Chapter 2, p. 26,^[9]

     Scarlatina, as an epidemic, does not always assume precisely the same appearance. This diversity depends in part, upon the varying nature and constitution of scarlatina itself, independently of all extrinsic circumstances; in part, upon certain contingencies, which are common to all the inhabitants of a whole district of country, such as the season of the year, the temperature of the air, the kindliness or inclemency of the weather […] and partly, upon circumstances which apply to individuals, subjected to the disease […]

3. (obsolete) Naturalness.

Synonyms

• (feeling kindly toward someone or something): charitability, friendliness

Antonyms

• unkindliness

Translations

See also

• favor

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