(n.) The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control.
(n.) An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification.
(n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory.
(v. t.) To grant an indulgence to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
(2) The lender will also have to take a 5% hit, to ensure it does not indulge in offering risky loans.
(3) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
(4) I believe that both Nan and I had such a strong marriage that it was possible.” And she was prepared to indulge his experiments?
(5) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
(6) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
(7) When election strategists brought in to pour over Ghani’s speeches told him to swear off coffee on rally days to strengthen his voice, he gave up one of his very few indulgences immediately.
(8) Early opportunities to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling came in the roles of a school snitch in the Al Pacino vehicle Scent of a Woman (1992), for which Hoffman auditioned five times.
(9) The chaddi [underwear] symbolises vulgarity, something Muthalik's men indulged in when they molested the girls in Mangalore, and pink adds shock value.
(10) This was the logic that initially led the coalition to reject Heathrow expansion, so why is it now, indulged if not quite supported by the opposition, drifting inexorably towards a new runway in the south-east?
(11) This is a character deliriously doomed to repetitive self-indulgence.
(12) They cut taxes on corporate Britain while indulging in entirely destructive gimmicks such as scrapping the 10p tax rate.
(13) However, it seems that other types of viruses (e.g., tobamoviruses, tombusviruses) do not indulge in regular gene exchange and that common gene pools, distinct from each other, do not occur.
(14) John Byrom, a lazy, self-indulgent 18th-century versifier, had three black hedgehogs on his coat of arms.
(15) There were also significantly elevated risks associated with occasional indulgence in these four habits.
(16) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
(17) It was another popular choice at a closing night ceremony indulgently received by the Cannes crowd.
(18) This is not about benevolent indulgence but achievement of genuine equality in support and contribution.
(19) This idea is quite contrary to the traditional view that the ancient Maya were a contemplative people, who did not indulge in ritual ecstasy.
(20) Smith responded by saying he would not “indulge in gossip”.
Leniency
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Investigators have frequently noted a leniency bias in mock jury research, in which deliberation appears to induce greater leniency in criminal mock jurors.
(2) SC Johnson, Colgate and Henkel, which alerted the competiton watchdog, will benefit from varying degrees of leniency, with Mr Muscle maker SC Johnson receiving total immunity.
(3) The Valencia official, who is apparently known in La Liga for his leniency, was marked out after drawing regular praise from the Portuguese over his three-year spell coaching Real Madrid.
(4) The referee, Martin Atkinson, could feasibly have shown four red cards and his leniency was starting to feel absurd when Danny Welbeck lunged in two-footed on Cesc Fàbregas during the closing exchanges and it was deemed worthy only of a booking.
(5) There was similar leniency from Alberto Mallenco at the opposite end as Gordon Greer was late on Robert Lewandowski.
(6) On Tuesday Khamenei used the expression "heroic leniency", which is being interpreted as a euphemism for a softer stance on foreign policy.
(7) Before sentencing, the soldiers' private lawyers pleaded for leniency, saying some of the defendants supported aged parents, others were the sole breadwinners in their family, and some of them had served in the army for 10 years, including in foreign peacekeeping missions.
(8) Although there have been a string of precedents in which clubs lost points for selecting ineligible players, Premier League rules allow scope for leniency in situations such as Ji's which involve a lack of international clearance.
(9) UBS, as the first bank to reveal the existence of investigations into Libor , is receiving leniency for co-operating with inquiries.
(10) I tried to make small talk with him to buy some leniency, telling him I was just a reporter.
(11) There have been a number of disturbing instances recently of such leniency, but at the moment they are not offences that can be referred.
(12) But the commutations are particularly significant because they are the first issued under new guidelines announced this year designed to cut costs by reducing the nation’s bulging prison population and grant leniency to nonviolent drug offenders sentenced to double-digit terms.
(13) Analysts say her freedom provided a way for the politicised court to show leniency in a case that won attention around the world.
(14) Arsenal's manager felt Naismith and Leighton Baines should also have been cautioned for fouls on Mikel Arteta and Santi Cazorla respectively but leniency from the referee, Martin Atkinson, was the least of his worries.
(15) Agüero had gone round Trapp before being taken down and the Spanish official plainly thought the angle the ball was heading meant there should be some leniency.
(16) Kilmister adds: "We have tried to argue that this [leniency deal] is totally undeserved and unjust and an insult to the elderly people who have suffered financial exploitation at Peverel's hands."
(17) It appeared, however, that there was more leniency toward time off from work to accompany children to appointments in the military population.
(18) My respected sir, I’m asking for forgiveness and leniency from you so that my sentence can be lightened.” LBH Masyarakat (@LBHMasyarakat) Here is a personal letter from Merri Utami to President Joko Widodo, asking for forgiveness.
(19) New York prosecutors detailed the cooperation of Hector Xavier Monsegur for the first time in court papers while asking a judge to reward him with leniency at his sentencing on Tuesday.
(20) In a final overall analysis, older adults were more lenient than the young in memory failure judgments, and their differential leniency was most apparent in judgments of the serious vignettes.