Assent vs Dispensation - What's the difference?
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To agree to, give approval.
* Macaulay
To admit a thing as true.
* Bible, Acts xxiv. 9
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.).
Assent is a related term of dispensation.
As nouns the difference between assent and dispensation
is that assent is agreement, act of agreeing 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.As a verb assent
is to agree to, give approval.assent
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Verb
(en verb)- The princess assented to all that was suggested.
- And the Jews also assented , saying that these things were so.