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What is a dispensation?

What is a dispensation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. 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.
  2. That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed
  3. A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
  4. 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.).
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There has to be special dispensation for goalkeepers and the SFA have got to argue our case with Fifa.
The temples were the preserve of classical arts till the arrival of Colonists whose dispensation, by definition, changed the rules of patronage.
To get diamonds for this purpose from conflict zones will require special dispensation from organizations such as the United Nations, they say.
In fact criticism is a necessary ingredient of any democratic dispensation as it helps to keep those in positions of authority in check.
This new dispensation in turn required the expansion of the political nation to create a legitimate match of taxation and representation.
She also argues for a reappraisal of the colonial past, and a transformation of the political dispensation in the future.

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