Dispensatively

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    By dispensation. not-comparable

    "c. 1630?, Henry Wotton, letter to the King First, for the point of Conscience, I can now hold my place Canonically, which I held before but dispensatively"

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"c. 1630?, Henry Wotton, letter to the King First, for the point of Conscience, I can now hold my place Canonically, which I held before but dispensatively"

Etymology

From dispensative + -ly.

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