In the teaching of the Catholic Church, an indulgence is "a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins"
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Indulgence is the action or fact of indulging. (in the Roman Catholic Church) a grant by the Pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution. The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages.
Indulgence sentence example. The indulgence accentuated the division between those who accepted and those who rejected it. German chocolates are my only indulgence . I went to a party last night, and there out of five ladies three were Roman Catholics and had the Pope's indulgence for doing woolwork on Sundays.
Mars orbits the Sun at an average distance (semi-major axis) of 228 million km (141.67 million mi), or 1.524 astronomical units (over one and a half times the distance between Earth and the Sun).