an occasion when you allow someone or yourself to have something enjoyable, especially more than is good for you:

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All the pleasures and indulgences of the weekend are over, and I must get down to some serious hard work.
the attitude of allowing yourself or someone else to have something enjoyable, or the act of having something enjoyable:
I want eventually to see a pension that provides not only for necessities but for indulgences as well.
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Their betters could do what they pleased, but it was not for the working classes to have such indulgences.
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People are less encouraged to have regard, for their immediate neighbours, and they have more technical means of inflicting their indulgences on others.
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They are not compelled day after day to suffer the indulgences of other cruel and rather selfish people.
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Reckon up your deficiencies and petty indulgences as an accountant would your losses, and put them right and keep them right.

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If we are being rather harsh, the key issue here is that those indulgences cannot continue indefinitely.
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The unfortunate fact remains that it is from the practice of such indulgences as this that the courts derive most of their work.
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There are what are known as first-class misdemeanants, and indulgences are given to many persons who fall into the class of political offenders.
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What is the use of telling that to a poor boy, who never got a shilling for any of those occasional little indulgences to which he is perfectly entitled?
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