Dispensation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISPENSATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a general state or ordering of things
• exemption from a rule or usual requirement
• permission to be exempted from the laws or observances of the Church
• a political, religious, or social system prevailing at a particular time
• (in Christian theology) a divinely ordained system prevailing at a particular period of history
• an act of divine providence
• the action of distributing or supplying something
• 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, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
• The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).
• an exemption from some rule or obligation
• a share that has been dispensed or distributed
• the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a general state or ordering of things; a system of revealed commands and promises regulating human affairs; a particular arrangement or provision especially of providence or nature

Words related to DISPENSATION

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How to use DISPENSATION in a sentence

• Called by an unexpected dispensation to its highest trust at a season of embarrassment and alarm, I entered upon its arduous duties with extreme diffidence.
• But it is a wise dispensation of Providence that the two are twin virtues, and are generally to be met with in the same broad and beautiful nature.
• Our lord the pope, who knoweth the necessities of your kingdom and your weakness of body, will gladly grant unto you a dispensation.
• They all said it was a dispensation of Providence in my favor.
• I have told them of visions, dreams, revelations, miracles, and all the mercies of this last dispensation.
• He then attacks the dispensation of the law, pointing out many instances of their mal-administration.
• Yet by a kindly dispensation of Providence the human faculty of astonishment will never lack food.
• All that was necessary for the pious founder was to obtain a royal dispensation from the operation of the statute.
• The end of the world is probably the end of a dispensation.
• The dispensation was granted, and Ethelwolf became a general in the army.
• The Mosaic dispensation is about to be closed in the fearful tribulations of the day of the Lord, and my dispensation to be set up.
• This is a necessary principle of religious belief and observance, characteristically new in this dispensation.
• This day the Archbishop of Canterbury inclined sometyme to the request of dispensation.
• There seemed indeed, as Glastonbury affirmed, a providential dispensation in the whole transaction.
• They are dominated by his categories of thought, but they perfect them in the light of the New Dispensation.
• Still, both countries should be contented and happy under this dispensation of Nature.
• The same rule, of course, applies to lodges under dispensation, whose Warrant of Dispensation supplies the place of a Warrant of Constitution.
• In all these we find provision for religious instruction, the dispensation of the same being by a teacher or preacher.
• To the architect falls the task, in the new dispensation, of providing the appropriate material environment for its new life.
• The study of the Bible has convinced the writer that the purpose of God, in creating woman, still lives, and is to find its complete fulfilment under the New Dispensation.
• Woman as a mother, under the Old Dispensation, differs in many important respects from woman as a mother under the New.
• In the Old Dispensation, the first born son is the child of promise.
• It prefers to worship something besides God, and so in the old dispensation it found its idol in the hero.
• You have quite a dispensation in that way lately, I perceive.
• The Christian dispensation was then scarcely set up.
• He never doubted His existence or His power, and he always claimed a dispensation of benefit as the right of British patriots.
• I shall now take a glance at slavery under the Mosaic dispensation.
• McPherson died, and a second dispensation which sent me here the day after.
• There is no exception, or dispensation to any one, in favour of any case.
• The hand of Heaven appears to have led us on to be, perhaps, humble instruments and means in the great Providential dispensation which is completing.

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