indulgence
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
indulgence/ɪnˈdʌlʤəns/
▶noun
- 1 the action or fact of indulging.
■ a thing that is indulged in; a luxury.
- 2 the state or attitude of being indulgent or tolerant.
- 3 an extension of the time in which a bill or debt has to be paid.
- 4 chiefly historical (in the Roman Catholic Church) a grant by the Pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution.
'indulgence' also found in these Oxford entries:
binge
- crave
- debauch
- debauched
- debauchery
- decadence
- hedonism
- indulge
- intemperate
- libertine
- lotus-eater
- orgy
- pardon
- puritan
- puritanical
- rake
- self-indulgent
- venery
- wool-gathering
