different between dispensation vs offering

English

Etymology

From Old French despensacion, from Latin dispens?ti?

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?p?n?se???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

dispensation (countable and uncountable, plural dispensations)

1. 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.
2. That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed
3. A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
4. 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.).

Related terms

• dispensationalism
• dispensationalist

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??f????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f????/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /??f????/

Verb

offering

1. present participle of offer

Noun

offering (plural offerings)

1. The act by which something is offered.
2. That which has been offered; a sacrifice.
3. An oblation or presentation made as a religious act.
4. A contribution given at a religious service.
5. Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.

Derived terms

• burnt offering
• peace offering

Related terms

• offer
• offertory
• oblate
• oblation

Translations

References

• offering in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• offering in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.