Indulgences is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INDULGENCES in dictionary:

VERB:
• INDULGENCE, to grant an indulgence
NOUN:
• the state or attitude of being indulgent or tolerant
• a thing that is indulged in; a luxury
• the action or fact of indulging
• (in the Roman Catholic Church) a grant by the Pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution. The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages.
• an extension of the time in which a bill or debt has to be paid
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• remission of part or all of the temporal and especially purgatorial punishment that according to Roman Catholicism is due for sins whose eternal punishment has been remitted and whose guilt has been pardoned (as through the sacrament of reconciliation)

Words related to INDULGENCES

indulgence14

Words that contain INDULGENCES

overindulgences22

How to use INDULGENCES in a sentence

• But even Eveena enjoyed them thoroughly, and my other companions prized an evening or afternoon thus spent above all other indulgences.
• It was his study of the theory of Papal Indulgences that led Luther on to his theological heresies.
• These indulgences were the very worst form of penance, since they made a mockery of virtue.
• The sense of security prompted in mademoiselle a hundred indulgences which, in her former precarious position, she would not have dreamed of.
• The Spanish Throne consequently enjoys the right of conferring different indulgences, even for serious crimes, in the name of the Holy See.
• He had preached two or three days at a place near Toledo, but found his indulgences go off but slowly.
• Indeed, she may make these very indulgences the means of strengthening her authority.
• His senses were becoming blunted with so many indulgences mechanically repeated.
• Do all you can, to induce their owners to clothe them well, and to allow them many little indulgences which would contribute to their comfort.
• Guicciardini implies that his health and strength had been prematurely broken by sensual indulgences.
• It was shown that the pope could empty it by his indulgences.
• But it is less with the quality of our indulgences, than their extent, that I have now to treat.
• Mankind cannot subsist upon the indulgences of nature, but must be supported by her more common gifts.
• But for some centuries they served as a charnel-house, and are so called in a papal grant of Indulgences.
• You will not deny yourself the gratification of your irrational and senseless indulgences, and yet you expect to be cured.
• If we are to take modern Catholic critics of Luther seriously, that has also been the teaching of their Church on the subject of indulgences.
• But the Roman teaching on indulgences is not such an innocent affair as Catholics would have us believe.
• Peter, at Rome, likewise a slayer of the Turk, and should furthermore share in the grace of Christ and the indulgences.
• Their sinful indulgences are not restrained by law.
• As to the gaining of Indulgences at the stations in Rome.
• Its applications and results were constantly and universally thrust into notice by the sale of indulgences and the launching of excommunications.
• Having been married before attaining his high ecclesiastical position, he was charged with continuing to partake of matrimonial indulgences.
• The sale of indulgences seems, therefore, no more criminal than any other cheat of the church of Rome, or of any other church.
• A certain hour of labour in the chain gangs was to be allotted to all the prisoners, and indulgences afforded them according to their good conduct.
• The object they propose to themselves in this increase of their domestic establishments, differs in some respects from the indulgences of the east.
• Luther had kindled the spark, which was to become a conflagration in Germany, at Wittemberg, on October 31, 1517, by his denunciation of indulgences.
• So much for indulgences in eating, drinking, and dress.

Similar words containing DULGENCE without suffix s and without prefix in

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