What is "dispensations"

Usage examples of "dispensations".

Caddis was left reflecting, that we have, in the dispensations of Providence, when we have a seat, to submit to castigations from butcherly men unaccountably commissioned to solidify the seat.

He’s the one who suggested my new business of dispensations and absolutions!

Moreover, if the pope can grant dispensations from his avaricious and tyrannical laws for money’s sake, then every Christian can grant dispensations from them -- for the sake of God and the salvation of souls.

The grades or degrees within which marriage is forbidden should be changed, as, for instance, the sponsorships and the third and fourth degrees and if the pope can grant dispensation in these matters for money and for the sake of the shameful traffic, 192 then every parish priest may give the same dispensations gratis and for the salvation of souls.

Sodalities, 218 indulgences, letters of indulgence, "butter-letter," 219 mass-letters, 220 dispensations, and everything else of the sort, are to be drowned and destroyed.

And how significantly now, how poignantly: "The dispensations of God are always just.

To keep each papacy from bankruptcy, simony redoubled, benefices and promotions were sold under pressure, charges for spiritual dispensations of all kinds were increased, as were chancery taxes on every document required from the Curia.

Papal dispensations of consanguinity were obtained in duplicate, one from each Pope because the marriages spanned the schism.

May it be among the dispensations of His providence to bless our beloved country with honors and with length of days.

It is torture, my dear Alexander —absolute torture, and requires long prayer and meditation to restore my mind to its usual tone, and to enable me to bow to the dispensations of the Divine will.

Spacers, however, did develop some bizarre and even disgusting habits, taking advantage of the dispensations awarded for the kind of life they led.

We’ve found several dispensations scattered over the last six hundred local years—almost a thousand Terran years—and most of them seem to be fairly pragmatic things like kitchen-sink chemistry and pretty darn empirical medicine and agriculture.

Harriet agreed, "but Earth certainly had gunpowder before it got beyond waterwheels and windmills, and the Church occasionally-very occasionally-grants dispensations through a system of special Conclaves.

We've found several dispensations scattered over the last six hundred local years-almost a thousand Terran years-and most of them seem to be fairly pragmatic things like kitchen-sink chemistry and pretty darn empirical medicine and agriculture.

Harriet agreed, "but Earth certainly had gunpowder before it got beyond waterwheels and windmills, and the Church occasionally—very occasionally—grants dispensations through a system of special Conclaves.