INDULGENCES
- A thing that is indulged in; a luxury
- The action or fact of indulging
- The state or attitude of being indulgent or tolerant
- An extension of the time in which a bill or debt has to be paid
- INDULGENCE [n]
- (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