Indulgences Synonyms and Antonyms

An inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. self-indulgences
  2. benefits
  3. services
  4. luxuries
  5. kindnesses
  6. graces
  7. dissipations
Antonyms:
  1. restraints
  2. mortifications
  3. care
  4. denials

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Indulgences Sentence Examples

  • Twenty years after Savonarola's death Martin Luther made public his theses against indulgences.

  • In 1908, however, it was suppressed, as stated above, and its functions as to indulgences were transferred to the Holy Office, and those as to relics to the Congregation of Rites.

  • This salutary doctrine, however, has undoubtedly been obscured to some extent by the phrase a poena et a culpa, which, from the 13th century to the Reformation, was applied to Plenary Indulgences.

  • The most accepted modern theory is that it is merely a catchword surviving from a longer phrase which proclaimed how, during such Indulgences, ordinary confessors might absolve from sins usually " reserved " to the Bishop or the Pope.

  • These misconceptions were certainly widespread from the 13th to the 16th century, and were often fostered by the " pardoners," or professional collectors of contributions for Indulgences.

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