单词 | indulger |
释义 | indulgern. One who indulges. a. One who treats (a person or thing) with indulgence: see indulge v. 1. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of strictness > [noun] > indulgence > one who indulges humorist1589 cockerer1611 indulger1659 1659 A. Brome in R. Brome Five New Playes (new ed.) sig. av These issues of thy brain, Of all th' Indulgers of the Comick strain Deserve applause. a1736 T. Yalden Ode St. Cecilia in Poet. Wks. (1833) 34 Music's the soft indulger of the mind, The kind diverter of our care. 1826 E. Irving Babylon II. vii. 240 Ye in~tolerant indulgers of heresy, and the arch-heretic! b. One who indulges or gives way to (a desire, inclination, etc.): see indulge v. 3. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [noun] > selfishness > self-pleasing or self-indulgence > self-indulgent person self-pleaser1582 indulger1648 suist1649 self-indulger1681 cake eater1916 1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia i. xiii. §5 (R.) And if..the severest watchers of their nature have task hard enough, what shall be hoped of the indulgers of it? 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. III. 322 Indulgers of those Lusts which every baptized Believer hath solemnly renounced. c. One who indulges in (some practice): see indulge v. 7. ΚΠ 1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 12 Illustrated by portraits of some of the indulgers. 1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (1852) 206 An indulger in fine sentiment. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1648 |
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