Indulgement
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 indulgence archaic, countable, uncountable
"But giving himself the liberty of too frequent indulgements, either to please his friend, or patient, or both, was taken away by death in the prime of his years on the 12th day of October (or thereabouts) in sixteen hundred seventy three, and was, I suppose, buried in the chappel belonging to the said hospital."
Example
More examples"But giving himself the liberty of too frequent indulgements, either to please his friend, or patient, or both, was taken away by death in the prime of his years on the 12th day of October (or thereabouts) in sixteen hundred seventy three, and was, I suppose, buried in the chappel belonging to the said hospital."
Etymology
From indulge + -ment.
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