All 3 Uses of
indulge
in
The Screwtape Letters
- Do not indulge the hope that you will escape the usual penalties; indeed, in your better moments, I trust you would hardly even wish to do so.†
Chpt 2 *indulge = enjoy to excess
- One of their poets, Coleridge, has recorded that he did not pray "with moving lips and bended knees" but merely "composed his spirit to love" and indulged "a sense of supplication".†
Chpt 4indulged = enjoyed to excess
- At the very moment of indulging her appetite she believes that she is practising temperance.†
Chpt 17indulging = enjoying to excess
Definition:
to give in to a desire or allow someone to enjoy or experience something -- especially something pleasurable