dispensation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Etymology: From Old French despensacion, from Latin dispensātiō. By surface analysis, dispens(e) + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: dispensations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a fair dispensation of money
The public's health is hardly improved by compounding the existing problem with the dispensation of undocumented, partially true or totally false material.
gloss: The distribution of good and evil by God to man.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Shall we not accompt theſe a part of Gods dispenſation, and therefore good in the Fountaine, from whence they flowed
gloss: That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Bowman certainly lost no time in travelling south to obtain his dispensation once he had published the sermon
gloss: A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations
The sacrificial death of the Lord Jesus Christ introduced the dispensation of pure grace—which means undeserved favor, or God GIVING righteousness, instead of God REQUIRING righteousness, as under Law.[…]
The first event in the closing of this dispensation will be the descent of the Lord from Heaven, when sleeping saints will be raised and, together with believers then living, caught up “to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thess. 4: 16, 17.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
 With an alien people clutching their gods.
gloss: The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Special grounds for giving dispensation to see classified documents include research purposes.
gloss: The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [H]e had a dispensation for conforming in outward observances to the Protestant faith.
Why, there has gone already to Rome a messenger to crave a second dispensation from his Popeship, and the King himself hath signed the request, praying that you and I should graciously be permitted to wed!
Related words: dispensationalism
dispensationalist
Derived words: dispensational
dispensation of the fulness of times
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: dyspensa
lang: Russian
word: разрешение
roman: razrešenije
lang: Arabic
word: تَحِلَّة
roman: taḥilla
lang: Czech
word: dispens
lang: Czech
word: dispenz
lang: Czech
word: dispense
lang: Czech
word: dispenze
lang: Danish
word: fritagelse
lang: Danish
word: dispensation
lang: Dutch
word: dispensatie
lang: Finnish
word: erivapaus
lang: French
word: dispense
lang: German
word: Dispens
lang: Hungarian
word: felmentés
lang: Hungarian
word: engedmény
lang: Hungarian
word: mentesség
lang: Hungarian
word: engedély
lang: Hungarian
word: hozzájárulás
lang: Icelandic
word: undanþága
lang: Indonesian
word: dispensasi
lang: Māori
word: whakawāteatanga
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: dispensasjon
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: dispensasjon
lang: Polish
word: dyspensa
lang: Polish
word: dyspensacja
lang: Slovak
word: dišpenz
lang: Spanish
word: dispensación
lang: Swedish
word: dispens
lang: Vietnamese
word: phép chuẩn