Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution

    a fair dispensation of money

    распределениеraspredelenije

    the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)

  2. (countable, uncountable)The distribution of good and evil by God to man.

  3. (countable, uncountable)That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone

    разрешениеrazrešenije

  4. (countable, uncountable)A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy

    the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations

    Gegebenheiten

  5. (countable, uncountable)The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.

    Dispens

  6. The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.

    (countable, uncountable)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.).

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Rome grants no dispensation from death.

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  2. Tom applied for a dispensation to hand his assignment in late.

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  3. One receives no dispensation from Rome for death.

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  4. There is no dispensation from Rome for death.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
act of dispensing:
that which is dispensed:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered:
relaxation of a law in a particular case:

Origin

From Middle English dispensacioun, from Old French despensacion, from Latin dispensātiō. B

From Middle English dispensacioun, from Old French despensacion, from Latin dispensātiō. By surface analysis, dispens(e) + -ation.

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Forms

plural: dispensations
Singulardispensation
Pluraldispensations

regular

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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