indulgence

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of indulging.

   “will all they that either through indulgence to others or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance any thing that is less than a sincere, uniform resolution of new obedience”

   “As indulgence in several wives depended mainly on the length of a man's purse, the poor naturally contented themselves with monogamy.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Tolerance.
3. (countable, uncountable)The act of catering to someone's every desire.
4. (countable, uncountable)A wish or whim satisfied.

   “"In other words, the ONLY indulgences we'll be getting for a while is fixing your wardrobe. This means no new manga. No new games. Nothing. Get used to it."”

5. (countable, uncountable)Something in which someone indulges.

   “I made but one error—giving way to petulance in the earlier instance; that lost me the Prince of Conti. Temper is bourgeois indulgence, though I own to a predilection for it.”

6. (countable, uncountable)An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.

   “If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.”

7. (countable, uncountable)A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.

   “To understand how indulgences were intended to work depends on linking together a number of assumptions about sin and the afterlife, each of which individually makes considerable sense.”

verb

1. (transitive)To provide with an indulgence.