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dispensation
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Definition:an exemption from following a statute or obligation; legal, religious, or otherwise
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Hippolita is related to me in the fourth degree— it is true, we had a dispensation: but I have been informed that she had also been contracted to another. This it is that sits heavy at my heart: to this state of unlawful wedlock I impute the visitation that has fallen on me in the death of Conrad!
Horace Walpole. The Castle of Otranto (1764)
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Larry: Maybe I'll call him right now.
Cheryl: You can't call him now; it's 10:45, it's 45 minutes past the cutoff.
Larry: So what? You get, like, an hour dispensation for good news.
HBO. Curb Your Enthusiasm, season 2: The Car Salesman (2001)
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“Best get moving, lass. There are things we’ll have to attend to. There’ll have to be a special dispensation,” he murmured, as though to himself. “But Ned can manage that.”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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“Oh, Mamma, how is it you don’t understand that the Holy Father, who has the right to grant dispensations . . .”
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 11 (Book Eleven)
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[...] a monstrous game of Musical Chairs was in full swing. I think I might have been willing to join the game if I had been granted a special dispensation from the Church of Manhattan guaranteeing that all the other players would remain respectfully standing till I was seated.
J.D. Salinger. Nine Stories: De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, p.132 (1948)
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"Yes, my squalid little serf," I said, and fluttered my hands in royal dispensation.
Gillian Flynn. Gone Girl, p.16 (2012)
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"You can't do that to a poor aunt unless you have a special dispensation from the Pope."
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.163 (1970)
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