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 Translation for 'indulgence' from English to French
NOUN1   an indulgence | indulgences
NOUN2   indulgence | -
VERB   to indulgence | indulgenced | indulgenced
indulgencing | indulgences
SYNO craziness | folly | foolery | ...
mansuétude {f}indulgence
tolérance {f} [indulgence]indulgence
complaisance {f} [péj.] [indulgence]indulgence
assouvissement {m}indulgence [gratification]
hist.relig.
indulgence {f} [vieux]
indulgence [religious]
petit plaisir {m}indulgence [sth. luxurious or pleasurable]
indulgence {f}indulgence [tolerance, lenience]
gâterie {f}indulgence [treat]
2 Words
tolérance {f} envers qn./qc.indulgence toward(s) sb./sth.
tolérance {f} à l'égard de qn./qc.indulgence toward(s) sb./sth.
relig.
indulgence {f} plénière
plenary indulgence
exorbitance {f}self-indulgence
complaisance {f} envers soi-mêmeself-indulgence
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  • indulgence {f} = permissiveness
  • indulgence {f} = compliableness
  • indulgence {f} = indulgence [tolerance, lenience]
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Usage Examples English
  • Many acts of penance carry an indulgence, which may be applied in behalf of the souls departed.
  • The Pope's grant of a plenary indulgence was being applied.
  • Before the promulgation of the 1967 "Enchiridion Indulgentiarum", an indulgence of 50 days resulted from this act.
  • Urban II may have been inspired by these concessions when he offered an indulgence to those who joined the First Crusade in 1095.
  • The faithful receive a partial indulgence if they recite the prayer after Communion before a crucifix.

  • Haarlem was granted its first known indulgence by Clement V in 1309, during the Avignon Papacy.
  • If even this is impossible to achieve, the indulgence can be obtained by the faithful if they "united with those carrying out the prescribed practice for obtaining the indulgence in the usual way", and offer to Jesus a prayer and their sufferings, again with the resolution of fulfilling the normal conditions at the earliest opportunity.
  • According to the "Enchiridion of Indulgences", an indulgence applicable only to the souls in purgatory (commonly called the poor souls) is granted to the faithful who devoutly visit on All souls Day a church or chapel and pray the Our Father and the Credo or the Lauds or Vespers of the Office of the Dead and the eternal rest prayer for the dead.
  • A visit to the cathedral church or another shrine designated by the bishop would also suffice to gain the Jubilee indulgence.
  • Eugene granted plenary indulgence to the knights and friars of the Order of Christ, and all other Christians, who fought in the crusade against the Saracens under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator.

  • The 31-line Indulgence is a plenary indulgence granted by Pope Nicholas V and issued in Erfurt on 22 October 1454.
  • Seventeen books printed between 1475 and 1480 are attributed to the workshop of the ‘Indulgence Binder’ now identified as Lettou.
  • Much of the language of the indulgence is borrowed from the speech made by Diego Gelmírez at the Council of Compostela (1125), the only other instance of such an indulgence being issued by a Spanish ecclesiastic and not by a pope in the twelfth century.
  • A Privileged Altar (Latin: "Altare Privilegiatum") was an altar in a Roman Catholic church where a plenary indulgence could be applied in favor of a soul in purgatory by the priest celebrating Mass whenever Mass was celebrated there.
  • Sayers writes that "the surrender to sin which began with mutual indulgence leads by an imperceptible degradation to solitary self-indulgence".

  • In May the faithful gather there for May Devotions and on 26 August (the Virgin Mary of Częstochowa Day) a Plenary Indulgence Mass is celebrated.
  • The faithful receive a partial indulgence if they recite the prayer after Communion before a crucifix. On the Fridays of Lent, the indulgence is a plenary indulgence.
  • The pope then prescribed that during October, a prayer to Saint Joseph be added to the Rosary and granted an indulgence of seven years and seven Lents for each such act; the prayer remains enriched with a partial indulgence in the current "Enchiridion Indulgentiarum".
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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