self indulgence

A form of self-indulgence — Excessive or immoderate indulgence of one's own personal desires and needs above all others.

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nounself indulgence (countable and uncountable, plural self indulgences)

plural self indulgences

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of self-indulgence.

    This is a handbook for self indulgence.

    1988, Diane Doan Noyes, Peggy Mellody, Beauty & Cancer: A Woman's Guide to Looking Great While Experiencing the Side Effects of Cancer Therapy, page 3
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    Secondly, we must avoid any temptation towards hopeless self indulgence. That is, that we despair of the electorate and present policies not to win government, but to indulge ourselves.

    1978, Commonwealth Record (Australia) - Volume 3, Issues 1-25, page 104

    Therefore, what Proverbs is to Godlike wisdom, Ecclesiastes is to man's carnal tendencies and his self indulgences. This book accentuates man's self indulgences, his selfish propensities, his moral depravity, his irreverence for God and the spiritual things of God.

    2004, Ed Marr, Vol 1: Repentance: The Doctrine of God and the Knowledge of Salvation (in the Old Testament), page 268
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