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INDULGING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of indulging or gratifying a desire
Synonyms:
humoring; indulgence; indulging; pampering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("indulging" is a kind of...):
gratification (the act or an instance of satisfying)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "indulging"):
intemperance; intemperateness; self-indulgence (excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence)
excess; overindulgence (excessive indulgence)
binge; orgy; splurge (any act of immoderate indulgence)
Derivation:
indulge (yield (to); give satisfaction to)
indulge (treat with excessive indulgence)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb indulge
Context examples:
With all these circumstances to favour an attachment, and nothing to prevent it, am I wrong, my dearest Jane, in indulging the hope of an event which will secure the happiness of so many?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“You anticipate, sir,” said Mr. Chillip, his eyelids getting quite red with the unwonted stimulus in which he was indulging.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I know the danger of indulging such speculations.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Then again the kindly influence ceased to act—I found myself fettered again to grief and indulging in all the misery of reflection.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
When breakfast was over she walked out by herself, and wandered about the village of Allenham, indulging the recollection of past enjoyment and crying over the present reverse for the chief of the morning.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The earliest intelligence of the travellers' safe arrival at Antigua, after a favourable voyage, was received; though not before Mrs. Norris had been indulging in very dreadful fears, and trying to make Edmund participate them whenever she could get him alone; and as she depended on being the first person made acquainted with any fatal catastrophe, she had already arranged the manner of breaking it to all the others, when Sir Thomas's assurances of their both being alive and well made it necessary to lay by her agitation and affectionate preparatory speeches for a while.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I was saying this to Mr. Cole but yesterday, and he quite agreed with me; only he is so particularly fond of music that he could not help indulging himself in the purchase, hoping that some of our good neighbours might be so obliging occasionally to put it to a better use than we can; and that really is the reason why the instrument was bought—or else I am sure we ought to be ashamed of it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Careless of her happiness, thinking only of my own amusement, giving way to feelings which I had always been too much in the habit of indulging, I endeavoured, by every means in my power, to make myself pleasing to her, without any design of returning her affection."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Her days were spent in a kind of slow bustle; all was busy without getting on, always behindhand and lamenting it, without altering her ways; wishing to be an economist, without contrivance or regularity; dissatisfied with her servants, without skill to make them better, and whether helping, or reprimanding, or indulging them, without any power of engaging their respect.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She could only resolve at last, that she would still avoid a meeting with her, and communicate all that need be told by letter; that it would be inexpressibly desirable to have her removed just now for a time from Highbury, and—indulging in one scheme more—nearly resolve, that it might be practicable to get an invitation for her to Brunswick Square.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
