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What is the noun for indulgence?

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indulgence
  1. the act of indulging
  2. tolerance
  3. catering to someone's every desire
  4. something in which someone indulges
  5. An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
  6. (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Your indulgence of your desires may cost you the empire.”
      “These mob criminals operated illegal gambling, bootlegging, stolen goods, pretty much everything you would want if you were pursuing some kind of debauched indulgence.”
      “This is not the kind of stuff to make part of your regular diet, but as an occasional indulgence, they are okay.”
indulger
  1. One who indulges.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Besides, the continued using causes the indulger to form a habit that cannot be easily overcome.”
      “In short, he is an indulger, a manipulator of texture, and ultimately counterproductive to this group's strengths.”
      “Was Smith an indulger in that new medicine for all ills, tobacco?”
indulgency
  1. (dated) indulgence
  2. Examples:
    1. “The author upholds that the beast came to punish the king from his indulgency towards the philosophers.”
      “Max Schindelberger's smile took on the quality of indulgency as he advanced slowly toward B. Lesengeld.”
      “What right have I to judge others severely, do you suppose, when I must ask for indulgency myself?”
indulgement
  1. (archaic) indulgence
  2. Examples:
    1. “However, in all fairness, there is a clause in the arrangement that allows for a minor indulgement once a week by either of the players.”
      “Chhiringdorje was in fact in a search of a proof to protest against wife for her indulgement in adultery.”
indulgements
  1. plural of indulgement
indulgences
  1. plural of indulgence
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Pope Sixtus IV's fund-raising campaign touted indulgences which would free your deceased loved ones suffering in purgatory.”
      “But I sense Ann would not have much sympathy for my namby-pamby indulgences.”
      “In 1567, it was found necessary to prohibit quaestuary, or venal indulgences.”
indulgencies
  1. plural of indulgency
  2. Examples:
    1. “Since that time, they have almost all married into the tory families, for the sake of dispensations and indulgencies.”
      “Nay, there are indulgencies granted to People in that State, which would be sinful out of it.”
      “Michael Cimino's indulgencies on Heaven's Gate is often cited as one of the causes for the demise of United Artists, the studio started by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and DW Griffith.”
indulgers
  1. plural of indulger
  2. Examples:
    1. “They make a mean iced Americano and both healthy eaters and indulgers will be sated.”
      “Only Mmampe, Smit and Maria, as the original and incorrigible indulgers, find the whole episode hilarious.”
      “We are one of the biggest chocolate indulgers in the western world with each one of us getting through several kilos of chocolate each year.”
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