dispensation
Pronunciation: /dɪsˌpɛnˈseɪʃən/
The English word “dispensation” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution
- The distribution of good and evil by God to man.
- That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone
- A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy
- The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.
- In the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption from some ecclesiastical law, or from an obligation to God which a person has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).
Etymology
From Middle English dispensacioun, from Old French despensacion, from Latin dispensātiō. By surface analysis, dispens(e) + -ation.
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More English words
- dispensableness
- dispensably
- dispensal
- dispensary
- dispensation of the fulness of times
- dispensational
- dispensationalism
- dispensationalist
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