indulgence vs throwback

indulgence

noun
  • Something in which someone indulges. 

  • An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification. 

  • A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution. 

  • The act of catering to someone's every desire. 

  • The act of indulging. 

  • Tolerance. 

  • A wish or whim satisfied. 

verb
  • to provide with an indulgence 

throwback

noun
  • A person or thing that evokes memories. 

  • A reversion to an earlier stage of development. 

  • An atavism. 

  • An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form. 

  • Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout 

  • A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient. 

  • A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction. 

  • A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed. 

How often have the words indulgence and throwback occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )