0 an occasion when you allow someone or yourself to have something enjoyable, especially more than is good for you:
Chocolate is my only indulgence.
All the pleasures and indulgences of the weekend are over, and I must get down to some serious hard work.
His health suffered from over-indulgence in (= too much) rich food and drink.
My inability to do needlework was treated with surprising indulgence by my teacher.
1 the attitude of allowing yourself or someone else to have something enjoyable, or the act of having something enjoyable:
Curiously, no one mentions indulgences.
I want eventually to see a pension that provides not only for necessities but for indulgences as well.
Not for him were cheap indulgences in rhetoric for its own end.
Their betters could do what they pleased, but it was not for the working classes to have such indulgences.
We reject, however, the many direct and indirect indulgences in the report of private companies.
They count the cost, very often, of their indulgences.
People are less encouraged to have regard, for their immediate neighbours, and they have more technical means of inflicting their indulgences on others.
None of these indulgences, we are now told, are to be interfered with.
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沉溺, 放縱, 允許…
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沉溺, 放纵, 允许…
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exceso, complacencia, lujo…
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vício, prazer, luxo…
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無節制, (食べ物の)ぜいたく, 道楽…
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çok fazla yeme içme, istediğini yapma, şımarma…
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plaisir [masculine], luxe [masculine], indulgence [feminine]…
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excés, indulgència, luxe…
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