Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Indispensable. Unavoidable.
- Excluded from dispensation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Indispensable.
- adjective obsolete Unavoidable; inevitable.
- adjective obsolete Not to be freed by dispensation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
Indispensable .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From un- + dispensable.
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Examples
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As where a Law exacteth a Pecuniary mulct, of them that take the name of God in vaine, the payment of the mulct, is not the price of a dispensation to sweare, but the Punishment of the transgression of a Law undispensable.
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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