Reason to accept court dispensing goodness (8)
I believe the answer is:
sanctity
'dispensing goodness' is the definition.
'sanctity' can be an answer for 'goodness' (I have seen 'Great goodness' mean 'sanctity' so perhaps 'goodness' could also mean 'sanctity'). I'm not sure about the 'dispensing' bit.
'reason to accept court' is the wordplay.
'reason' becomes 'sanity' (I've seen this before).
'to accept' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'court' becomes 'ct' (abbreviation used in road names).
'sanity' going around 'ct' is 'SANCTITY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sanctity that I've seen before include "Untouchable quality" , "Ultimate importance" , "Holiness, sacredness" , "Tiny acts (anag) - godliness" , "State of grace and holiness" .)