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Definition of Self-indulgence

1. Noun. An inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires.

2. Noun. Excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence. "The intemperance of their language"

Definition of Self-indulgence

1. Noun. Excessive or immoderate indulgence of one's own personal desires and needs above all others. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-indulgence

self-help groups self-hypnosis self-image self-images self-immolate self-immolation self-immolations self-importance self-important self-imposed

self-improvement self-incrimination self-induced self-inductance self-induction self-indulgence (current term) self-indulgent self-infection self-inflicted self-injure

self-injured self-injures self-injuring self-injury self-insertion self-insurance self-interest self-involved self-justification

Literary usage of Self-indulgence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... leading no life of self-indulgence, except, indeed, that, being happy in each other, we find everything easy. We are working hard to provide for others ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... greed, or self-indulgence. Yet in exacting of lus followers a life of severe simplicity, Buddha did not go to the extremes of fanaticism that ..."

3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1890)
"HOW self-indulgence PARALYZES VIRTUE. BY WILLIAM LAW. (From the " Serious Call.") [WILLIAM LAW, one of the foremost of eighteenth-century divines, ..."

4. Conversations with Children on the Gospels by Amos Bronson Alcott (1837)
"Connexion between Self-Indulgence and Cowardice. — Repentance.— Emblem of self-indulgence. — Spiritual Illumination. Mr. Alcott. ..."

5. The Life of William Wilberforce by Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Caspar Morris, Samuel Wilberforce (1839)
"... it was not because his time had been passed in ease or self-indulgence, but because he had never learned to " stop his ears at the cry of the poor. ..."

6. Room at the Top by Adam Craig (1882)
"The moral of this little story is capable of a very extensive application in life.—Smiles. EVILS OF self-indulgence. T, like Cleopatra, you had dissolved a ..."

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