Indulgence - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: indulgenceIndulgent
Prone to indulge yielding to the wishes humor or appetites of those under ones care compliant not opposing or restraining tolerant mild favorable not severe as an indulgent parent...
Indulge
To indulge ones self to gratify ones tastes or desires esp to give ones self up to to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint followed by in but formerly also by to...
Indulgement
Indulgence...
Indulgence
To grant an indulgence to...
Indulgency
Indulgence...
Indulgently
In an indulgent manner mildly favorably...
Indulger
One who indulges...
Self indulgence
Indulgence of ones appetites desires or inclinations the opposite of self restraint and self denial...
Self indulgent
Indulging ones appetites desires etc freely...
Luxury
Luxury, as an entirely relative term; a free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastees; also a mode of life characterized by material abundance and gratification of expensive tastes, (Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. IV, p. 887).Luxury, could among other meanings be defined as (1) abundance, sumptuous enjoyment; (2) the habitual use of, or indulgence in, what is choice or costly; (3) refined and intense enjoyment; means of luxurious enjoyment; (4) in a particularized sense; something which conduces to enjoyment or comfort in addition to what are accounted the necessaries. Hence, in recent use, something which is desirable but not indispensable; and (5) as an attribute as luxury coach, cruise duty, edition, flat, liner, shop, tax, trade, Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edn., Vol. IX.Means something which conduces enjoyment over and above the necessaries of life. It denotes something which is superfluous and not indispensable and...
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