indulgence vs tolerance

indulgence

noun
  • Tolerance. 

  • 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. 

  • A wish or whim satisfied. 

  • Something in which someone indulges. 

verb
  • to provide with an indulgence 

tolerance

noun
  • The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry. 

  • The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection. 

  • The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement. 

  • The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism. 

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