All 7 Uses of
indulgent
in
Sense and Sensibility
- A more reasonable cause might be found in the dependent situation which forbade the indulgence of his affection.†
Chpt 4 *
- But by an appeal to her affection for her mother, by representing the inconveniences which that indulgent mother must draw on herself, if (as would probably be the case) she consented to this increase of establishment, Marianne was shortly subdued; and she promised not to tempt her mother to such imprudent kindness by mentioning the offer, and to tell Willoughby when she saw him next, that it must be declined.†
Chpt 12
- The evening passed off in the equal indulgence of feeling.†
Chpt 16
- From you, her mother, and so kind, so indulgent a mother, the question could not give offence.†
Chpt 16
- From this time the subject was never revived by Elinor, and when entered on by Lucy, who seldom missed an opportunity of introducing it, and was particularly careful to inform her confidante, of her happiness whenever she received a letter from Edward, it was treated by the former with calmness and caution, and dismissed as soon as civility would allow; for she felt such conversations to be an indulgence which Lucy did not deserve, and which were dangerous to herself.†
Chpt 24
- She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays.†
Chpt 30
- In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony to be at Cleveland; and as she returned by a different circuit to the house, feeling all the happy privilege of country liberty, of wandering from place to place in free and luxurious solitude, she resolved to spend almost every hour of every day while she remained with the Palmers, in the indulgence of such solitary rambles.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(indulgent) to treat with extra kindness or tolerance