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Concubine |
An unmarried woman who has sex with a married man and lives with him and his wife |
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Dispensation |
Permission to break a law or an official promise you have made : release from a rule, vow, or oath An act of providing something to people a general state or ordering of things; specifically : a system of revealed commands and promises regulating human affairs A particular arrangement or provision especially of providence or nature An exemption from a law or from an impediment, vow, or oath A formal authorization |
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Consent (law of common consent) |
To agree to do or allow something To give permission for something to happen or be done To give assent or approval |
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Charity |
The act of giving money, food, or other kinds of help to people who are poor, sick, etc. ; also : something (such as money or food) that is given to people who are poor, sick, etc.
An organization that helps people who are poor, sick, etc.
The organizations that help people in need
Benevolent goodwill toward or love of humanity
Generosity and helpfulness especially toward the needy or suffering; also : aid given to those in need An institution engaged in relief of the poor
Public provision for the relief of the needy A gift for public benevolent purposes An institution (as a hospital) founded by such a gift Lenient judgment of others |
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Metaphor |
A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar An object, activity, or idea that is used as a symbol of something else
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money); broadly : figurative language — compare simile An object, activity, or idea treated as a metaphor |
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Empathy |
The feeling that you understand and share another person's experiences and emotions : the ability to share someone else's feelings The imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it
The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the capacity for this |
