indulgence Copy link Outline I. Too lenient treatment1. indulgentia (in good or bad sense)2. vĕnia (an act of grace or clemency)II. Free gratification of desiresIII. Papal • indulgence: I. Too lenient treatment: 1. indulgentia (in good or bad sense): excessive i. towards any one, nimia i. in aliquem, Pl. in Cic. Fam. 10, 23, med.: Caes. 2. vĕnia (an act of grace or clemency): to grant any one an i., v. alicui dare, Cic. Arch. 2, 3: Liv. To treat with i., indulgere: v. to indulge. II. Free gratification of desires: Phr.: prone to sensual i., effusus in Venerem, Liv. 29, 23, med.: devoted to every kind of vicious and depraved i., vitiis flagitiisque omnibus deditus, Cic. R. Am. 13, 38: so, voluptatibus deditus, id. Fin. 1, 18, 57: habitual i. of animal desires, corporis obsequium atque indulgentia, Cic. Fin. 1, 23, init.: free i. in wine, largior jucundiorque vini invitatio, Gell. 15, 2 (also dimin. invitatiunculae, slight indulgence, ib. in lemm.). III. Papal: *indulgentia (as tech. t.): plenary i., ind. plenariae: to preach i.s, ind. praedicare, Eccl. Scr. in Kr. Or expr. by circuml.: venia s. remissio peccatorum a pontifice Romano promissa, Kr.