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dispensation
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dispensation as in:  received dispensation to

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A last-minute dispensation enabled her to get the experimental drug.
dispensation = an exemption from some rule or obligation
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    At that time, a Hungarian was not permitted to marry a woman of another class except by special dispensation of the State.
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    The 70 year-old protestant minister became a Roman Catholic priest with special dispensation from the Pope to continue living under the same roof with his wife.
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    King Henry VIII required a papal dispensation to marry Catherine.
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    And yet a dispensation may be had.†  (source)
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    He was in charge of the dormitory; one of the dispensations of those days of deliverance, I realized now, had been his absence.  (source)
    dispensations = normal burdens that were removed
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    Jem's free dispensation of my pledge irked me, but precious noontime minutes were ticking away.  (source)
    dispensation = granting of an exemption or exception
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    and across the world that lay at their back, there was rejoicing in the Temples, with much singing and the making of offerings, and processions and prayers, sacrifices and dispensations, pageantry and color.†  (source)
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    The director has already filed a dispensation to keep me out of the reserves.  (source)
    dispensation = an exemption from some rule or obligation
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    Oh, Mamma, how is it you don't understand that the Holy Father, who has the right to grant dispensations...†  (source)
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    Grey was able to arrange for a special dispensation to allow that weekly call—your mother's only link with the world she once knew ....  (source)
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    , the first beginners of this Plantation in New England, to commit to writing his gracious dispensations on that behalf;†  (source)
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    With special dispensation from the Vatican, she took her vows and entered a convent in Madras as a trainee novice.  (source)
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    Henry sputtered, and forgetting the latest dispensations from General Motors, grabbed for a gearshift and stomped at a clutch.†  (source)
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dispensation as in:  dispensation of supplies/justice

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    Dispensation of controlled substances is carefully monitored.
    dispensation = distribution
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    The charity focused on the dispensation of scholarships to students from underserved communities.
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    Your uncle will have dispensation of that fief.  (source)
    dispensation = authority to management or distribute
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    My husband is generous with the dispensation of spirit, at week's-end, there is often music heard in the servants' quarters.  (source)
    dispensation = giving
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    She believes she was left to fend for herself throughout childhood, a pitiful creature of random hand-me-downs and forgotten permission slips, tightened budgets and general regret. This vision could be somewhat true; I can barely stand to admit it. "Yes, my squalid little serf," I said, and fluttered my hands in royal dispensation.  (source)
    dispensation = act of giving something out
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    We receive our dispensation of medical supplies each Friday.†
    dispensation = the giving of a certain amount of something
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    The dispensation of food and supplies to the flood victims took several days to organize.†
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dispensation as in:  the dispensation of that era

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Such is the dispensation of an all-wise Providence!  (source)
dispensation = system of order
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    She believes that Jesus's sacrifice was the transition from dispensation of law to a new dispensation of grace.
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    The one called Lucas was a mild and meek-looking little gentleman of clerical aspect; he had been an itinerant evangelist, it transpired, and had seen the light and become a prophet of the new dispensation.†  (source)
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    Under the old dispensation, sexual competition had been relentless and cruel: for every pair of happy lovers there was a dejected onlooker, the one excluded.  (source)
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    There were many men and women in Umuofia who did not feel as strongly as Okonkwo about the new dispensation. The white man had indeed brought a lunatic religion, but he had also built a trading store and for the first time palm-oil and kernel became things of great price, and much money flowed into Umuofia.  (source)
    dispensation = system of order
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    Now, in the dismal aftermath of defeat, the idea of risking the fate of America in defense of New York seemed so senseless that submitting to the "dispensations of Providence," as he said, was about the only recourse left.  (source)
    dispensations = God's will
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    I told them that whites were Africans as well, and that in any future dispensation the majority would need the minority.  (source)
    dispensation = system of order
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    ... bringing the new dispensation even to the Golden Day, even unto the house of madness.  (source)
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    ... the Omnipotent snatched it from me. I, in my stiff-necked rebellion, almost cursed the dispensation: instead of bending to the decree, I defied it.  (source)
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    If the presence of Arthur was a daily reproach to his father, and if the absence of Arthur was a daily agony to his mother, that was the just dispensation of Jehovah.  (source)
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    I wanted to impress upon the reporters the critical role of whites in any new dispensation.  (source)
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    But, forasmuch as all favourite legends must be associated with the affections, and as many more people fall in love than commit murder—which it may be hoped, howsoever bad we are, will continue until the end of the world to be the dispensation under which we shall live—  (source)
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    He made them for precisely the opposite reason: to ensure power for the Afrikaner in a new dispensation.  (source)
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    As long as the violence was not dealt with, the progress to a new dispensation would remain uneven and uncertain.  (source)
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