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Definition of Dispensations
1. dispensation [n] - See also: dispensation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispensations
Literary usage of Dispensations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"A. The first section deals with all matrimonial dispensations, except those ...
With regard to these dispensations it is important to note the distinction ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"As for Dispensations it is true, that there was some use of them in the ancient
Church: it beeing necessary that as in the Temporall, ..."
3. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"The Unity of Design, which appears in the Dispensations recorded in the Scriptures,
is an Argument not only of their Truth and Genuineness, ..."
4. Essays on the Principles of Morality, and on the Private and Political by Jonathan Dymond (1880)
"The Morality of the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian Dispensations. ... That the
records of all these dispensations contain declarations of the Will of ..."
5. Shakespeare's Marriage, His Departure from Stratford and Other Incidents in by Joseph William Gray (1905)
"XII MARRIAGE LICENCES OR Dispensations THE oldest records of licences or
dispensations granted for marriages in England are " doubtless in the Vatican. ..."
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