indulgently, adv.
(ɪnˈdʌldʒəntlɪ)
[-ly2.]
1. In an indulgent manner; with indulgence or disposition to humour; kindly, favourably, leniently; without strictness or severity.
| a 1611 Beaum. & Fl. Tri. Love i, My mother, father, And uncle, love me most indulgently, Being the only branch of all their stocks. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. xvi. 102 Being thus indulgently put into employment, [I] soon recovered myself. 1884 Manch. Exam. 8 May 5/3 Not in the humour to listen indulgently to an invitation to lay out fifty thousand pounds on another public park. |
† 2. With indulgence of one's own inclinations; self-indulgently. Obs.
| 1572 tr. Buchanan's Detection (London ed.) H iij a, Indulgently following the wantonnes of hyr wealth. 1647 Hammond Power of Keys iv. 112 To live indulgently in sin. 1659 ― On Ps. cxix. 7 As long as I live in any sin indulgently. |