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Example sentences for "dispensation"

Lexicographically close words:
dispend; dispensa; dispensable; dispensaries; dispensary; dispensational; dispensations; dispense; dispensed; dispenser
  1. A dispensation was necessary, and the case was of course the more difficult if the first marriage had been completed.

  2. A new difficulty disclosed itself in the supposed existence of a brief issued by Pope Julius and now in the possession of the Emperor, which overruled all the objections to the earlier dispensation on which Henry relied.

  3. I don't know who it was that said it, but it was a very good answer to one who asked why Lord Gower had not kissed hands sooner--"the Dispensation was not come from Rome.

  4. Patapan begs you will get him a dispensation from Rome to go and hear the thanksgiving at St. Paul's.

  5. Abraham, like the Israelites, was under a typical dispensation and practiced rites and ceremonies which were a shadow of good things to come.

  6. Carnal and spiritual weapons will no more unite under the gospel dispensation than iron and miry clay.

  7. Under the Mosaic dispensation many crimes were punishable with death according to positive precept; but God, for wise reasons, did not always have the penalty executed.

  8. It is therefore more proper for those who live under this new and perfect dispensation to look at the substance than at the shadow for a rule of duty.

  9. The nature of religion and morality under the ancient dispensation was the same as under the new.

  10. John the Baptist was under the Mosaic economy, the new dispensation not having commenced.

  11. As the church under a former dispensation had divine authority for engaging in war, it is important to ascertain whether this authority was abrogated under the gospel dispensation or not.

  12. If literal sacrifices, slavery, and many other practices which are totally abolished under the Christian dispensation were not contrary to the moral law under the Old Testament economy, why may not the same be true of war?

  13. All kinds of vindictive punishment under the Christian dispensation appear to be absolutely forbidden.

  14. The first miracle of the Christian dispensation was wrought in honor of the family state, which the Mosaic dispensation had done so much to establish and confirm.

  15. One woman in the Christian dispensation has received a special crown of honor.

  16. No dispensation was ever granted until after the marriage, and after Henry of Navarre's simulated conversion to Roman Catholicism.

  17. The Guises, in the same spirit, had at one time proposed as a candidate for Margaret's hand the Cardinal of Este, for whom they hoped easily to obtain from the Pope a dispensation from his vow of celibacy.

  18. There is, however, another consideration which weighs with our author in granting to "modern unbelievers" a dispensation from the duty of religious veracity.

  19. There were persons who, in spite of the dispensation of the Spirit, still preached circumcision after its significance was gone.

  20. Providence for the most part sets us upon a Level, and observes a kind of Proportion in its Dispensation towards us.

  21. Lady Bothwell kept the dispensation which enabled her to marry Bothwell, though he was divorced from her for the want of it.

  22. The parties being akin, a dispensation was necessary, and was granted by the Pope, and issued by the Archbishop of St. Andrews.

  23. The followers of the previous Dispensation grievously failed to acquire an adequate understanding of this station.

  24. Such is the dispensation of Providence, yet the people are shut out by a grievous veil.

  25. It is a dispensation of Providence ordained by the Ordainer, the All-Wise.

  26. Hole after hole slipped away, and I know that it was only by a kindly dispensation of Providence that we even halved that match, which we had reckoned as safely in our pockets.

  27. Now came the closing prayer and the dispensation of the blessing.

  28. Yet even under the old dispensation the sacred thirst of the creature for the Creator was confessed: "As longeth the hart for the water-springs, so longeth my soul after thee, O Lord.

  29. Many an afflictive dispensation thus loses its sanctifying design.

  30. Sir George Cockburn, upon his remonstrance after his first arrival, had granted to him a dispensation from the attendance of an orderly officer, at least in his immediate company or vicinity.

  31. Yet the high place so lately occupied by the fallen monarch might, we think, have claimed for him some dispensation from a restriction so humiliating.

  32. Nay," quoth Little John, also grinning, "the blessed Saint Dunstan hath given me a free dispensation for all indulgence in that line.

  33. A dispensation from fasting was granted to the priests on duty, that they might not be weak in the service of the Sanctuary.

  34. Under the Christian dispensation believers are directed to look to Jesus, who promises to be in their midst (Matt.

  35. The second dispensation is founded upon blood; and these animals were taken through the flood in the ark that they might illustrate the indispensable necessity of the shedding of blood.

  36. He makes all His people in this dispensation kings and priests.

  37. In the Jewish dispensation none but the high priests could enter into the holy of holies; but the veil being rent, God came out and man can go in through the veil of His flesh.

  38. There was such a thing as getting a dispensation from the pope, by which the marriage would be authorized.

  39. But does this re-establishment of the Church of Christ, this new dispensation of the gospel, which we have received, make our relationship to the children of men one of unfriendliness?

  40. The Prophet planted by teaching the germ-truths of the great dispensation of the fulness of times.

  41. From the revelation referred to I learn that "Mormonism" came into existence because there was an absolute necessity for a new dispensation of the gospel, a re-establishment of the Church of Christ among men.

  42. In the council at Jerusalem this is announced as the distinctive work of the Spirit in this dispensation "to gather out a people for his name.

  43. It is a fullness of joy peculiar to the dispensation of the Spirit to be able to do so.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dispensation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abjuration; administration; admission; allowance; broadcast; broadcasting; cession; charter; consent; copyright; courtesy; creation; diffraction; direction; discipline; dispensation; dispersal; dispersion; disposal; disposition; dissemination; dissipation; distribution; divergence; dole; empire; evaporation; exemption; expansion; faculty; favor; franchise; freedom; grant; immunity; indulge; indulgence; kindness; leave; liberty; licence; license; management; oversight; patent; polity; preservation; privilege; propagation; publication; radiation; recantation; regime; regulation; reign; release; renunciation; resignation; retraction; riddance; rule; sacrifice; scattering; service; share; sovereignty; spattering; splay; spread; sprinkling; supervision; surrender; sway; ticket; waiver; warrant; yielding