dispensation
Meaning of dispensation
noun
- 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.).
Information about dispensation
- It is a name.
- The plural form of dispensation is: dispensations.
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Hyphenation of dispensation
dis-pen-sa-tion
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- dispensation is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Translation of dispensation
- French: affectation
- Portuguese: destinação
- Italian: erogazione
- German: Austeilung
- Spanish: dispensación
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