Conservation vs Absolution - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between conservation and absolution is that conservation is the act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation while absolution is absolution.
conservation Noun
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
Wise use of natural resources.
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(biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
(biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
(culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
(physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
Derived terms
* anticonservation
* anticonservationist
* conservational
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absolution English
Noun
( en noun)
(ecclesiastical) An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
Forgiveness of sins, in a general sense. [ ]
The form of words by which a penitent is absolved. [ ]
- (Shipley)
An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. [ ]
- Government ... granting absolution to the nation.
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(obsolete) Delivery, in speech.
- (Ben Jonson)
Derived terms
* Absolution day
Related terms
* absolute
See also
* indulgence
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