[f. prec. + -MENT.] The action of empowering; the state of being empowered.
1849. Life Rev. J. Fisher, ii. 29. They followed up this remarkable empowerment, by, at one sweep, removing … the sentences [etc.].
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Rel. Knowl., II. 1369. An all-conquering conviction of divine vocation and empowerment.
