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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

... another critic, Mr. Comyns Carr, we may fitly close: "No painter of our time," said Mr. Carr, "maintains a firmer or more constant adherence to those severe principles of design which have received the sanction of great example in the past. Sir Frederic Leighton has never lowered the standard of his work in deference to any popular demand, and for this persistent devotion to his own highest ideals he deserves well of all who share his faith in the power ...

— Frederic Lord Leighton - An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work • Ernest Rhys

... impossible to imagine what conceivable function such awful religions can perform in the economy of the world. And no one can fully explain them. But one use they assuredly had: they fixed the yoke of custom thoroughly on mankind. They were the prime agents of the era. They put upon a fixed law a sanction so fearful that no one could dream of not conforming to it. No one will ever comprehend the arrested civilisations unless he sees the strict dilemma of early society. Either men had no law at all, and lived in confused ...

— Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society • Walter Bagehot

... is to be the sanction of any decree, levy, or ordinance of the Federal Council; in other words, how it would deal with any member of the Confederacy who should refuse to provide money or perform any other act prescribed by the common authority of ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) - Essay 9: The Expansion of England • John Morley

... the first edition of "The Golden Dog" (Le Chien d'Or) was brought out in the United States, entirely without my knowledge or sanction. Owing to the inadequacy of the then existing copyright laws, I have been powerless to prevent its continued publication, which I understand to have been a successful and profitable undertaking for all concerned, except the author, the book ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... into the hearts of men, it and the like of it; suppressed fire flashed in the eyes of men, as they thought of it, waiting their day! Which day came: Germany rose round him. What Napoleon did will amount in the long run to what he did justly; what Nature with her laws will sanction. To what of reality was in him; to that and nothing more. The rest was all smoke and waste. La carriere ouverte aux talens: that great true message, which has yet to articulate and fulfil itself every ...

— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 - Volume 23, Number 5 • Various

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