assignment vs dispensation

assignment

noun
  • The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. 

  • A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another. 

  • A document that effects this transfer. 

  • An assigned task. 

  • The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex. 

  • An operation that assigns a value to a variable. 

  • A position to which someone is assigned. 

  • A task given to students, such as homework or coursework. 

  • The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category. 

dispensation

noun
  • That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone 

  • 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.). 

  • The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution 

  • A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy 

  • The distribution of good and evil by God to man. 

  • The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption. 

How often have the words assignment and dispensation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )