sanction

Speech parts

1. sanction - Noun

2. sanction - Verb

Meaning

Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; establishment or furtherance of anything by giving authority to it; confirmation; approbation.

Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal sanctions.

To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

countenance support confirm approve authorization authorize commission back allow authority penalty punishment permit warrant ratification
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Antonyms

coventry nix baa tabu award jawbone
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Hypernyms

clear pass approval permission approve authorization

Hyponyms

name support back visa okey confirm

Phrases with the word

fair sanction divine sanction

Derivatives

sanctioned sanctioning

Anagrams

canonist santonic sonantic contains

Examples

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. - Anthem. Ayn Rand

Evil requires the sanction of the victim. Ayn Rand

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. George Santayana

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. Joseph Addison

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. Walter Benjamin

Close letter words and terms

sanctimoniously sanctimoniousness sanctimony sanctionability sanctionable sanctionably