indulgement

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noun

indulgence

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Meanings

nounindulgement (countable and uncountable, plural indulgements)

plural indulgements

  1. archaiccountableuncountableindulgence
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    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.

    1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume II (Completing the Whole Work), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […], →OCLC

Origin

From indulge + -ment.

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APA

indulgement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indulgement

MLA

“indulgement.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indulgement. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “indulgement,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indulgement.

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