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Sanction   /sˈæŋkʃən/  /sˈæŋʃən/   Listen
Sanction

noun
1.
Formal and explicit approval.  Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, warrant.
2.
A mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards.
3.
Official permission or approval.  Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization.
4.
The act of final authorization.
verb
(past & past part. sanctioned; pres. part. sanctioning)
1.
Give sanction to.  Synonyms: approve, O.K., okay.
2.
Give authority or permission to.
3.
Give religious sanction to, such as through on oath.



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"Sanction" Quotes from Famous Books



... have not to fear Such hard and arbitrary measure here; Else could a law, like that which I relate, Once have the sanction of our triple state, Some few that I have known in days of old Would run most dreadful risk of catching cold. While you, my friend, whatever wind should blow, Might traverse England safely to and fro, An honest man, close buttoned to the chin, ...
— The Task and Other Poems • William Cowper
... sufficient majority should decide to forbid the extension of the slave system to new territory, that should end the question, or else the Constitution was not worth the paper on which it was written. "Law and order," was his motto; and "All changes and reforms under the sanction of law, and at the command of the majority," ...
— His Sombre Rivals • E. P. Roe
... ladies in Cranford chose to sanction the marriage by congratulating either of the parties. We wished to ignore the whole affair until our liege lady, Mrs Jamieson, returned. Till she came back to give us our cue, we felt that it would be better to consider the engagement in the same light as the Queen of Spain's legs—facts which ...
— Cranford • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... But for the opposite course, a little boldness, a faculty for keeping on the windward side of the law, as Turenne outflanked Montecuculi, and Society will sanction the theft of millions, shower ribbons upon the thief, cram him with honors, and ...
— Melmoth Reconciled • Honore de Balzac
... get admission to the Conservatoire was now the problem; Berlioz set to work on a cantata with orchestral accompaniments, and in the mean time sent the most imploring letters home asking his father's sanction for this change of life. The inexorable parent replied by cutting off his son's allowance, saying that he would not help him to become one of the miserable herd of unsuccessful musicians. The young enthusiast's cantata gained him admission to ...
— Great Italian and French Composers • George T. Ferris


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