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UK
/dɪspɪnsˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /ˌdɪspənˈseɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌdɪspənˈseɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)
- an exemption from some rule or obligation
- a share that has been dispensed or distributed
How To Use dispensation In A Sentence
- They were wed by special dispensation at St Mary's Church in Shrewton on Monday afternoon in a ceremony performed by Royal Yeomanry padre Simon Bloxam-Rose.
- So that even in their case the characteristic of the Mosaic dispensation was theopneustic, rather than theologic. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- Selling fireworks should be prohibited other than for the few days immediately before November 5, unless the authorities give special dispensation for other events.
- Unless Celtic are given special dispensation to register the midfielder for the New Year's Day game against Hearts at Tynecastle, Keane will not be eligible until the Scottish Cup tie away to Clyde the following weekend.
- Physicians must learn to engage in gentle but direct truth-telling in the dispensation of their duty to patients who depend on them for accurate yet compassionate descriptions of their condition.
- Mr. Larsen makes the mistake of equating millennialism with dispensationalism, when the latter is actually a particular type of the former.
- The sport's ruling body gave him dispensation to compete in national competitions.
- This new dispensation is likely to strike many of us as chaotic -- Grossman is being disingenuous when he writes that "None of this is good or bad," since he surely knows most of his readers judge it to be bad indeed -- especially those of us who want some of those "conventional criteria for literary value" to survive. Principles of Literary Criticism
- Catholic with a baptised non-Catholic constitutes a "relative" impediment and needs a special dispensation and provisoes, such as a guarantee to bring up the children in the Roman faith to give it validity. A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.
- Fundamentalists reject a larger portion of secular society, maintain strong commitments to strict literalism, premillennial dispensationalism, and moral traditionalism.