indulgent
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Indulgences; Plenary indulgence; Partial indulgence; Penitential Redemptions; Redemptions, Penitential; Apostolic Indulgences; Indulgences, Apostolic; Abuse of indulgences; Indulgent; Sale of indulgeneces; Pardoner; Letter of indulgence; Sale of indulgences; Abuses of Indulgences; Abuses of indulgences; Enchiridion Indulgentiarum; Partial indulgences; Indulge; Quaestore
If you are indulgent, you treat a person with special kindness, often in a way that is not good for them.
His indulgent mother was willing to let him do anything he wanted.
ADJ
• indulgently
Ned smiled at him indulgently.
ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj