0 an occasion when you allow someone or yourself to have something enjoyable, especially more than is good for you: --
My inability to do needlework was treated with surprising indulgence by my teacher.
His health suffered from over-indulgence in (= too much) rich food and drink.
All the pleasures and indulgences of the weekend are over, and I must get down to some serious hard work.
Chocolate is my only indulgence.
1 the attitude of allowing yourself or someone else to have something enjoyable, or the act of having something enjoyable: --
What is the use of telling that to a poor boy, who never got a shilling for any of those occasional little indulgences to which he is perfectly entitled?
There are what are known as first-class misdemeanants, and indulgences are given to many persons who fall into the class of political offenders.
The unfortunate fact remains that it is from the practice of such indulgences as this that the courts derive most of their work.
If we are being rather harsh, the key issue here is that those indulgences cannot continue indefinitely.
The average wage is one which does not permit of great indulgences or a large measure of savings.
Reckon up your deficiencies and petty indulgences as an accountant would your losses, and put them right and keep them right.
They are not compelled day after day to suffer the indulgences of other cruel and rather selfish people.
None of these indulgences, we are now told, are to be interfered with.
