indulgence
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- noun
- /ɪnˈdʌl.dʒəns/
- Specialized
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indulgencia
- Historically, people believed that buying an indulgence could forgive their sins and shorten their punishment.
- plenary indulgence
- promise of indulgences
Also the fact that the Saint Peter's was built off the back of sale of indulgences.
- Also the fact that the Saint Peter's was built off the back of sale of indulgences.
- OK, he said, you know, at the time people were able to pay for indulgences like that is to say they could send.
Examples
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In the Roman Catholic Church, an indulgence can reduce the time a soul spends in purgatory after death.
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Did you buy an indulgence?
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With this indulgence, I can absolve any sin.
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They are to get a holy indulgence.
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Tetzel: But I carry indulgence special letters from the pope.
Fiction book (1998) -
Indulgences are an established tradition which give comfort to millions of simple Christians.
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The indulgence, of course, is meaningful in Catholic belief only as a remission of purgatorial punishment.
Academic text (2008) -
The indulgence controversy of 1517 was at the headwaters of the divisions of the sixteenth century.
Academic text (2011) -
Roman Catholic indulgences, much in vogue until Luther's time, had this absolving power.
Fiction book (1991) -
The pope granted an indulgence to those who participated in the Crusades as a way to encourage their efforts.
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Morphology
Etymology
Indulgence comes from the Latin indulgere, which meant 'to allow' or 'be kind to'. In the Church long ago, an indulgence was a special permission that reduced the punishment for sins, so the name fits its meaning of 'allowing' less penalty.