All 7 Uses of
indulgent
in
War and Peace
- One must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, Andrew?†
Chpt 1 *
- How strange, how extraordinary, how joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who had first learned to say "pear" and then "granny," that this son should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly warrior doing some kind of man's work of his own, without help or guidance.†
Chpt 3
- He told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor.†
Chpt 5
- 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.†
Chpt 8
- I don't like it, it's just self-indulgence!"†
Chpt 8
- The old prince said that if he was ill it was only because of Princess Mary: that she purposely worried and irritated him, and that by indulgence and silly talk she was spoiling little Prince Nicholas.†
Chpt 9
- When campaigning, Rostov allowed himself the indulgence of riding not a regimental but a Cossack horse.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(indulgent) to treat with extra kindness or tolerance