dispensation

Plural: dispensations

Noun

• an exemption from some rule or obligation
• a share that has been dispensed or distributed
• the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)
• The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution
• The distribution of good and evil by God to man.
• That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone
• A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy
• The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.
• The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.
• 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

• "a fair dispensation of money"
• "the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations"

Related Words

dispensationalism, dispensationalist