Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

dispensation

/dɪsˌpɛnˈseɪʃən/ noun

Forms dispensations

noun The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution “a fair dispensation of money”
noun The distribution of good and evil by God to man.
noun That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone
noun A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy “the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations”
noun The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.
noun (Catholicism) In the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption from some ecclesiastical law, or from an obligation to God which a person has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).

Etymology

From Middle English dispensacioun, from Old French despensacion, from Latin dispensātiō. By surface analysis, dispens(e) + -ation.

noun The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.
noun That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed; especially (Theol.),

Etymology [F. dispensation, L. dispensatio.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “dispensation”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details