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Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of

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Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory. (more info) 1. The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control. If I were a judge, that word indulgence should never issue from my lips. Tooke. They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less. Hammond. 2. An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification. If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly. Rogers.

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  • EXCUSEMENT
    Excuse. Gower.
  • DELIGHTING
    Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
  • PARDON
    A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
  • REWARDFUL
    Yielding reward.
  • PUNISHER
    One who inflicts punishment.
  • REWARD
    To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
  • DISMISSAL
    Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
  • DELIGHTLESS
    Void of delight. Thomson.
  • CONDONATION
    Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. Bouvier. Wharton. (more info) 1. The act
  • DEALBATION
    Act of bleaching; a whitening.
  • EXCUSE
    1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
  • VISITATION
    The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually
  • DEALFISH
    A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
  • EXCUSER
    1. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift. 2. One who excuses or forgives another. Shelton.
  • PUNISHABLE
    Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness,
  • REVELATION
    1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
  • DELIGHTOUS
    Delightful. Rom. of R.
  • INDULGENCE
    Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of
  • GRATIFICATION
    1. The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart. 2. That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment;
  • DEAL
    The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.
  • THYROIDEAL
    Thyroid.
  • ENTERDEAL
    Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
  • SHOREWARD
    Toward the shore.
  • IDEALISTIC
    Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
  • DOUBLE DEALER
    One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
  • WATER ORDEAL
    See 1
  • MISARRANGEMENT
    Wrong arrangement.

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