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How to pronounce dispensation in English?

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Type Words
Type of permission, license, permit
Has types variance
Derivation dispense
Type Words
Type of percentage, part, portion, share
Derivation dispense
Type Words
Type of distribution
Derivation dispense

Examples of dispensation

dispensation
On procedure, the U.S. operates under a temporary dispensation called an indult.
From the time.com
They were held as valid, though illicit if a dispensation had not been obtained.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Under the new dispensation, the supper will be given to honor the artist himself.
From the time.com
The new dispensation would for the first time allow in groups of married priests.
From the nytimes.com
First, all states should give death-row inmates dispensation to have DNA tests.
From the economist.com
The first known settlement on Danish territory was based on a royal dispensation.
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Papal dispensation was granted on these grounds for her to marry Arthur's brother.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Hector Sants, the FSA's chief executive, is clearly enjoying the new dispensation.
From the economist.com
Maybe if you teach at Harvard you get an honorary dispensation from the 1 percent.
From the bostonherald.com
More examples
  • An exemption from some rule or obligation
  • A share that has been dispensed or distributed
  • The act of dispensing (giving out in portions)
  • In the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church, a dispensation is the suspension by competent authority of general rules of law in particular cases. ...
  • In certain religions, a dispensation is a distinctive arrangement or period in history that forms the framework through which God relates to mankind.
  • The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration; That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed; A system of principles, ...
  • (dispensational) Pertaining to one of several systems or bodies of law in which at several times God has revealed His mind and will to man, or the continued state of things resulting from the operation of one of these systems
  • (Dispensations) Permission to neglect a rule, often issued for church rules.
  • A dispensation is a grant of energy from God that we can use to help us fulfill a mission, goal or project.