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dispensaˈbility [f. next + -ity.] The quality of being dispensable. a. Capability of being dispensed or made the subject of ecclesiastical dispensation. b. Capability of being dispensed with or done without. a.1650R. Hollingworth Exerc. Usurped Powers 43 Quoting a Doctor of the Papacy for the dispensabilitie of an oath. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. iv. iii. §23 [They] deny..the dispensability of the decalogue in any part. 1881Stubbs Med. & Mod. Hist. xii. (1886) 284 The theologians disputed as to the dispensability of a marriage with a brother's widow. b.1883R. Broughton Belinda III. iii. ix. 81 Weighing the dispensability or indispensability as a travelling companion of each [book]. |