OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 18225

indulgence

/ɪnˈdʌl.d͡ʒəns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
indulgencia
A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
To understand how indulgences were intended to work depends on linking together a number of assumptions about sin and the afterlife, each of which individually makes considerable s…