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dispensation

Dispensation is a 12 letter word which starts with the letter D and ends with the letter N for which we found 4 definitions.

Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) That which is dispensed dealt out or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed
(n.) A system of principles promises and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as the Patriarchal Mosaic and Christian dispensations.
(n.) 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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