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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



... in banks and bills resting on a secure basis. One of his earliest measures was to prepare, with the aid of his Assistant-Superintendent, Gouverneur Morris, a plan of a bank, which soon after, with the sanction of Congress, went into operation as the Bank of North America. Small as the capital with which it started was,—only four hundred thousand dollars,—its influence was immediately felt throughout the country. It gave an impulse to legitimate enterprise which ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various

... those who object to the use of this word in the sense of unfounded, unwarranted, unreasonable, untrue. Its use in this sense, however, has the sanction of abundant authority. "Weak and gratuitous conjectures."—Porson. "A gratuitous assumption."—Godwin. "The gratuitous theory."—Southey. "A gratuitous invention."—De Quincey. "But it is needless to dwell on the improbability ...
— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)

... Poyntz, the Queen of the Hill? There, at her house, I could not fail to learn all about the new comers, who could never without her sanction have ...
— A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... false, and at a cast lost all. Gloomy, the long hair framing the distraught and unhappy face, she sat. "Unhappy the lot of this Kiku. The sisters left without a father's sanction, to witness the shadow on the mother's life; to know that father but as criminal ready to be sent to the execution ground; and now, by rashness of the tongue, to condemn husband and infant son to such a hideous ...
— Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville

... of attention." The professor had been thinking. " Rather than let my girl marry that scalawag, I'll take you and her to Greece this winter with the class. Separation. It is a sure cure that has the sanction ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane


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