'Indulgence = Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory.'
Hence, we may have to concede that marriage is a punishment for sins.
Words ending in '-tory' are of two types. 1. Nouns. 2. Adjectives.
ADJECTIVES
accusatory.
admonitory.
adulatory.
amatory.
ambulatory.
anticipatory.
articulatory.
auditory.
celebratory.
circulatory.
circumlocutory.
classificatory.
compensatory.
conciliatory.
condemnatory.
confirmatory.
confiscatory.
congratulatory.
contradictory.
contributory.
copulatory.
corroboratory.
declamatory.
declaratory.
defamatory.
deprecatory.
derogatory.
desultory.
dilatory.
depository.
discriminatory.
dormitory.
emancipatory.
exclamatory.
expiatory.
expiratory.
explanatory.
exploratory.
expository.
factory.
hallucinatory.
improvisatory.
incantatory.
inflammatory.
informatory.
inhibitory.
innovatory.
interlocutory.
interrogatory.
intimidatory.
introductory.
inventory.
investigatory.
justificatory.
laudatory.
mandatory.
mediatory.
migratory.
mitigatory.
obfuscatory.
obligatory.
offertory.
olfactory.
oscillatory.
participatory.
peremptory.
perfunctory.
placatory.
predatory.
prefatory.
preparatory.
procreatory.
promontory.
propitiatory.
purgatory.
refractory.
regulatory.
rejuvenatory.
repertory.
repository.
respiratory.
retaliatory.
revelatory.
rotatory.
satisfactory.
secretory.
statutory.
stimulatory.
trajectory.
transitory.
unsatisfactory.
valedictory.
vibratory.
NOUNS
conservatory.
directory.
history.
lavatory.
prehistory.
observatory.
oratory.
rectory.
signatory.
story.
territory.
tory.
victory.
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We can use nouns also as adjectives.
Here is a small quiz based on the 'tory' adjectives used by Charles Dickens in his 1838 novel 'Oliver Twist'.
I have shortened the phrases and sentences for convenience of easy reading and comprehension. Errors, if you find any, are mine and not of Dickens.
Fill up the blanks, selecting appropriate words, from the CHOICE BOX.
CHOICE BOX Words:
admonitory
conciliatory
confirmatory
contradictory
explanatory
inflammatory
interrogatory
introductory
inventory
peremptory
preparatory
satisfactory
PHRASE/SENTENCE Box
* Oliver Twist, despite all the ____y looks and pinches of Bumble, was regarding the repulsive countenance of his
future master, with a mingled expression of horror and fear, too
palpable to be mistaken, even by a half-blind magistrate .
REM: Mingled is adj1. 'Of horror and fear' is adj2 for 'expression' i.e. an 'adjectival phrase'. 'Palpable' is adj3.
* Bull's eye, giving vent to another ____y growl for the benefit of Oliver, led the way onward .
* Now and then, a stage-coach, covered with mud, rattled briskly by: the driver bestowing, as he passed, an ____y lash upon the heavy waggoner.
REM:Today, 'admonitory lashes' might have become 'figurative' and probably not physical. A vulgarly wealthy master may administer admonitory lashes on his home servants. The servants may bear them if he pays them profusely. Subsequent monetary rewards and some little 'sorries' may compensate for the assaults and injuries.
* The Jew, rubbing his hands together, said, in his most ____y tone 'And where should you think Bill was now, my dear?' .
REM: I wish that Dickens ought not to have used words which indicate race. Then 1838 is different from 2009.
* Her disordered appearance, and a wholesale perfume of Geneva which pervaded the apartment, afforded strong ____y evidence of the justice of the Jew's supposition .
* 'What he says is quite correct,' observed Blathers, nodding his head in
a ____y way, and playing carelessly with the handcuffs, as if they were a pair of castanets .
REM: See the master-stroke: 'playing carelessly with handcuffs'
* Oliver stared innocently in Mr. Bumble's face at this somewhat ____y style of address .
* This was ____y, but not satisfactory .
* Sikes being weak from the fever, was lying in bed, taking hot water
with his gin to render it less ____y .
*A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the
room, as this ____y was put .
* Chapter 29 of Oliver Twist HAS AN ____Y ACCOUNT OF THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH OLIVER RESORTED.
* Having gone through this very extraordinary performance, he took off the cocked hat again, and, spreading himself before the fire with his back towards it, seemed to be mentally engaged in taking an exact ____y of the furniture .
REM:Here 'inventory' is a noun, meaning 'stock'.
* His companion repeating his request in a ____y manner, he unlocked the door, and requested him to close it softly, while he got a light .
REM:We can use: 'authoritative manner' also.
* As it extorted nothing from that gentleman but a smile, the old lady tossed her head, and smoothed down her apron ____y to another speech.
REM: Preparatory is apparently an adverb which describes 'smoothing down'.
* Sikes seized the glass, and threw the remainder of its contents into the ashes: as a ____y ceremony to filling it again for himself.
* The beadle coughed, ____y to bidding her good-night, bashfully inquired whether--whether he wouldn't take a cup of tea?
REM:Preparatory modifies 'coughed', hence an adverb. But the dividing line is very thing. "The cough or coughing is preparatory", has some characteristics of an adjective.
* Giles popped out his nightcap again, ____y to making some reply.
* Chapter 35 contains the ____Y RESULT OF OLIVER'S ADVENTURE .
* Brownlow admitted that on no one point of inquiry could he yet return a ____y answer .
