INDULGENCE Copy link • INDULGENCEindulgentia: clementia: benignitas [SYN. in INDULGENT]: venia (pardon shown to error, or to persons in error). To show indulgence to, etc., indulgere alicui or alicui rei (e.g., to a debtor, debitori; to anybody’s faults, alicujus peccatis): veniam dare alicui or alicui rei (to grant pardon, e.g., errori) [☞ To INDULGE]: to show indulgence to anything, connivere in aliqua re (to wink at): gratiam facere alicujus rei (to concede): to treat anybody with indulgence, indulgentia tractare or indulgenter habere aliquem; indulgere alicui: to treat anybody with much indulgence, magna esse in aliquem indulgentia: to treat anybody with too much indulgence, nimis or nimium alicui indulgere; one’s self, nimis sibi indulgere. An indulgence (ecclesiastical), venia Pontificis Romani; venia delictorum or peccatorum (☞ indulgentia, used by ecclesiastical writers, is not to be recommended): to grant an indulgence, veniam alicui et impunitatem dare (Cic., Phil., 8, 11, 32): to obtain an indulgence, veniam peccatorum impetrare: a letter of indulgence, *litterae or libellus veniarum. Sale of indulgences, veniarum nundinatio (Vid: Cic., Rull., 1, 3, 9): to sell indulgences, *Pontificis Romani veniam nundinari. A seller of indulgences, *nundinator veniarum; veniarum venditor. Money paid for indulgences, or raised by the sale of indulgences, nummi ob veniam Pontificis Romani impetrandam dati (after Cic., Verr., 5, 51, extr.).