dispensation vs distribution

dispensation and distribution both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dispensation	Yes	No	No	No
distribution	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, distribution is a hypernym of dispensation; that is, distribution is a word with a broader meaning than dispensation:

dispensation (noun)	distribution (noun)
the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)	the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
an exemption from some rule or obligation	the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
a share that has been dispensed or distributed	the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
	(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence