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Definition
to give into a desire or enjoy something — especially in excess of what is thought good—such as a desire to eat too much cake, or be too lazy
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to allow or help someone to get their way or enjoy something — especially something that (probably because of excess) is not considered to be good or proper
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to allow or help someone to get their way or enjoy something — especially something that (probably because of excess) is not considered to be good or proper
- 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
- 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
There are no more uses of "indulge" in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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