favourable treatment; a former Catholic pardon granted for remission of punishment for sins also INDULGENCY [n -S] / to grant an indulgence [v INDULGENCED, INDULGENCING, INDULGENCES]
The action or fact of indulging
The state or attitude of being indulgent or tolerant
A thing that is indulged in; a luxury
(in the Roman Catholic Church) A grant by the pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution. The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages
An extension of the time in which a bill or debt has to be paid