Assertion: approbation | /r/HasProperty | granted
Facets:
value: gratuitously
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: bishops, after an examination if they shall think it necessary, or in some other way, judged fit and has obtained their approbation, which shall be granted gratuitously—any privileges and custom whatsoever, though immemorial, to the contrary notwithstanding.
text: The Council of Trent, quoted above, decrees : "Although priests receive in their ordination the power of absolving from sins, nevertheless the Holy Synod ordains that no one, even though he be a regular, is able to hear the confessions of seculars, not even of priests, and that he is not to be reputed fit thereunto, unless he either holds a parochial benefice or is, by the bishops, after an examination if they shall think it necessary, or in some other way, judged fit and has obtained their approbation, which shall be granted gratuitously — any privileges and custom whatsoever, though immemorial, to the contrary notwithstanding.