Dispensations

Dispensations
Permission to neglect a rule, often issued for church rules.
♦ A papally granted licence to do what is not permitted by canon law, or at least by the human laws of the church; it cannot alter what is deemed to be divine law, e.g. the Ten Commandments.
(Heath, Peter. Church and Realm, 1272-1461, 362)

Medieval glossary. 2014.

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