DISPENSATION
- a general state or ordering of things [n -S]
- The action of distributing or supplying something
- Exemption from a rule or usual requirement
- Permission to be exempted from the laws or observances of a church
- A system of order, government, or organization of a nation, community, etc., esp. as existing at a particular time
- (in Christian theology) A divinely ordained order prevailing at a particular period of history
- An act of divine providence