Both Uses of
indulge
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late begun to pamper.†
p. 96.1 *indulged = enjoyed to excess
- Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence.†
p. 100.4
Definition:
to give in to a desire or allow someone to enjoy or experience something -- especially something pleasurable