"self indulgence" meaning in English

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      "form": "self indulgences",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, Commonwealth Record (Australia) - Volume 3, Issues 1-25, page 104",
          "text": "Secondly, we must avoid any temptation towards hopeless self indulgence. That is, that we despair of the electorate and present policies not to win government, but to indulge ourselves.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Diane Doan Noyes, Peggy Mellody, Beauty & Cancer: A Woman's Guide to Looking Great While Experiencing the Side Effects of Cancer Therapy, page 3",
          "text": "This is a handbook for self indulgence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Ed Marr, Vol 1: Repentance: The Doctrine of God and the Knowledge of Salvation (in the Old Testament), page 268",
          "text": "Therefore, what Proverbs is to Godlike wisdom, Ecclesiastes is to man's carnal tendencies and his self indulgences. This book accentuates man's self indulgences, his selfish propensities, his moral depravity, his irreverence for God and the spiritual things of God.",
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        "Alternative form of self-indulgence"
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  "word": "self indulgence"
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      "form": "self indulgences",
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      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, Commonwealth Record (Australia) - Volume 3, Issues 1-25, page 104",
          "text": "Secondly, we must avoid any temptation towards hopeless self indulgence. That is, that we despair of the electorate and present policies not to win government, but to indulge ourselves.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Diane Doan Noyes, Peggy Mellody, Beauty & Cancer: A Woman's Guide to Looking Great While Experiencing the Side Effects of Cancer Therapy, page 3",
          "text": "This is a handbook for self indulgence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Ed Marr, Vol 1: Repentance: The Doctrine of God and the Knowledge of Salvation (in the Old Testament), page 268",
          "text": "Therefore, what Proverbs is to Godlike wisdom, Ecclesiastes is to man's carnal tendencies and his self indulgences. This book accentuates man's self indulgences, his selfish propensities, his moral depravity, his irreverence for God and the spiritual things of God.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of self-indulgence"
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