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How to use dispensation in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun

Dispensation means the act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution. Example: “The public's health is hardly improved by compounding the existing problem with the dispensation of undocumented, partially true or totally false material.”

Examples of dispensation by meaning

nounThe act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution.

  • 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.1976 December 18, Carol S. Ribner, Sanford M. Reder, “Boston's Gay Health Collective Replies to GCN”, in Gay Community News, volume 4...

nounThat which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone.

  • Bowman certainly lost no time in travelling south to obtain his dispensation once he had published the sermon2016, Robert D. Cornwall, William Gibson, Religion, Politics and Dissent

nounA system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy.

  • the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations

nounThe relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something...

  • Special grounds for giving dispensation to see classified documents include research purposes.2003, J. Abraham, H. Lawton Smith, Helen Lawton Smith, Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry

nounIn the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption from some ecclesiastical law, or from an obligation to God which a person...

  • 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!1905, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, May Margaret: called "the fair maid of Galloway," - Page 184

More sentences with dispensation

  • Jung in MDR as a contemporary gospel that contains the kerygma of a new dispensation.1997, Richard Noll, The Aryan Christ, Macmillan, page xiv. From the entry kerygma
  • Oh, A know vera well, we've no time for an old or a new dispensation nowdays.1913, Agnes C. Laut, The Freebooters of the Wilderness. From the entry nowdays
  • But such dispensations are inevitably time limited and ultimately a decision to replace or modify them must be made.2021 January 27, Industry Insider, “Surplus to requirements”, in RAIL, number 923, page 68. From the entry grandfather rights
  • A dispensation from a minor impediment is not vitiated by obreption or subreption, even though the final cause alleged be false.1918, Henry Amans Ayrinhac, Marriage Legislation in the New Code of Canon Law, page 103. From the entry obreption
  • Kinsley has always been given to amusing put-downs—a dispensation allowed him in the misogelastic media because he presents himself as a moralist.1992, R[obert] Emmett Tyrrell Jr., The Conservative Crack-Up, New York, N.Y. […]: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry misogelastic
  • The things as these, were the prognostications or foremessages of the coming of the dispensation as needed by the time they came in.1926, Gouri Prosad Mozoomdar, Keshub Chunder Sen and the Schools of Protests and Non-protests. From the entry foremessage
  • In this season warlocks and carlines have a special dispensation to do evil, and Alison waited on its coming with graceless joy.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry graceless
  • Among the seven dispensations, the other six are God really working through the people of Israel to redeem the world, to make right what was put wrong.2023 August 23, Daniel Hummel, 18:55 from the start, in ‘The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism’ — A Conversation with Daniel Hummel…. From the entry Church Age
  • Today, the tenets of dispensationalism are upheld across various portions of conservative evangelical Christianity, though debates linger over the precise division, nomenclature, and number of dispensations.2022, R. B. Thieme, Jr., “dispensationalism”, in Thieme's Bible Doctrine Dictionary, First edition (Religion), Houston, TX: R. B. Thieme…. From the entry dispensationalism
  • There are times, Machiavelli concedes, where it might be more advantageous to be cautious and bide one's time in order to ascertain the dispensation of the goddess more clearly.2019, Andrew Herman, The “Better Angels” of Capitalism, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry bide one's time
  • The Binhai District of Tianjin, for example, was the first to be granted dispensation by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange to engage in direct investment in overseas securities.2011, Darryl S.L. Jarvis, “International Financial Centres in Asia: Contest, Competition and Possible Trajectories”, in Darryl S.L.…. From the entry Binhai
  • Under the multicultural dispensation, Hispanics get to be considered “nonwhite”, as members of that global, monolithic “superminority” defined only by its opposition to the European ascendancy.2010, J. R. Dunn, Time For Hate! Tree of Liberty Patriot's Fascism End the FED. From the entry superminority
  • White's discussion of the rift between environmentalists and those who "work for a living" points up the vagaries of educating for work under the present technoliterate dispensation.1998, Randall Roorda, Dramas of Solitude, page 217. From the entry technoliterate
  • After some years in which ING Group received dispensation from the US government it will now start to ‘debank’ (giving back its banking licence) its business in the US.1997, Simon Sijbrands, “The Internationalisation of Dutch Banks: New Beginning and Future Developments”, in Jack Revell, editor, The…. From the entry debank
  • Partly because it is separated from the Chinese mainland by a 13-mile strip of water, the authorities give it special dispensation to stray from economic and social orthodoxy.1993 March 25, Sheryl WuDunn, “Haikou Journal; For Treasure (and Pleasure), Their Special Island”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Haikou
  • The reason why it remains undispensed is that the dispensation which is actually granted cannot conceivably be construed as relating to the case that actually exists.1960, Catholic University of America, Canon Law Studies - Issue 392, page 195. From the entry undispensed

Meaning of dispensation

  1. noun The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution.
  2. noun The distribution of good and evil by God to man.
  3. noun That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone.

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Questions about dispensation in a sentence

How do you use dispensation in a sentence?
Dispensation is used as a noun. For example: “The public's health is hardly improved by compounding the existing problem with the dispensation of undocumented, partially true or totally false material.”
What is a short sentence with dispensation?
“a fair dispensation of money”
What does dispensation mean?
Dispensation means the act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution.

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