licensing

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of license

noun

1. A giving of license to do something; sanction.
   To fence Truth about with prohibition and licensings, the weak inventions of fear and policy, is to doubt her strength, and vainly to imagine that she needs our protection in the battle that she is for ever waging with falsehood and with error. 1874, T. Turner, Lessons in English Literature, volume 1, page 155
   As a result of these irregular ordinations and licensings, a rupture occurred between prorevival ministers in southern Kentucky and more conservative members of the Synod of Kentucky. 2005, Samuel S. Hill, Charles H. Lippy, Charles Reagan Wilson, Encyclopedia of Religion in the South, page 311