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Appropriation vs Dispensation - What's the difference?

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Appropriation is a related term of dispensation.


As nouns the difference between appropriation and dispensation

is that appropriation is an act or instance of while dispensation is the act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by god to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.

appropriation

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act or instance of .
  • That which is .
  • Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
  • (arts) The use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.
  • (sociology) The assimilation of concepts into a governing framework.
  • dispensation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.
  • That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed
  • A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
  • The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).