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indulgency Now rare.|ɪnˈdʌldʒənsɪ|
[ad. L. indulgēntia: see indulgence n. and -ency.]
1. The quality or practice of being indulgent; indulgent disposition or action; = indulgence n. 1.
1547Act 1 Edw. VI, c. 12 §1 Great clemencye and indulgencye..rather..then exacte severitie and justice to be shewed. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 51 The first was, a violent indulgencie of the Queen (which is incident to old age..) towards this Lord. 1659Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 395 We used all acts of indulgency to them. 1663Cowley Verses & Ess., ‘A Tower of Brass’ v, Thrice happy He To whom the wise indulgency of Heaven, With sparing hand, but just enough has given. 1704D'Urfey Royal Converts Tales, etc. 247 Tortur'd twixt Indulgency and Rage. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) i. Introd., As the crown of all its indulgency.
b. An indulgence; = indulgence n. 1 b.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. ii. xxiv. (1834) I. 505 Indulgencies.. granted in condescension to our infirmity. 1811Ora & Juliet I. 101 This person..distributed her indulgencies..according to the price that was paid for them.
2. = indulgence n. 2.
1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. IV. 321 You should be very sparing and indifferent in the indulgency of your Passions. 1889Stevenson Master of B. 263, I warn you, my lord, against this indulgency of evil feeling.
b. = indulgence n. 2 b.
1688Norris Theory Love (1694) 141 That Sort of Corporal Indulgency, which is emphatically call'd Sensuality. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. xiii. 278 An amicable well frequented port..abounding with the conveniencies and indulgencies of a civilized life. 1827J. F. Cooper Prairie I. i. 14 Thousands..broke up from the enjoyment of their hard earned indulgencies. 1878F. A. Kemble Rec. of Girlhood I. iii. 90 Meantime, the poetical studies, or rather indulgencies of home, had ceased.
†3. = indulgence n. 3. Obs.
1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. i. 11 They receive Indulgencies. 1708Motteux Rabelais iv. xxix. (1737) 119 Swarming with Pardons, Indulgencies, and Stations. 1789Burney Hist. Mus. III. i. 32 note, Luther began to preach against indulgencies 1517. 1845S. Austin tr. Ranke's Hist. Ref. III. 519 The communes..were vainly reminded how much their masses and indulgencies had heretofore cost them. |