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sanctionative

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sanc⋅tion

  [sangk-shuhn]
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–noun
1. authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
2. something that serves to support an action, condition, etc.
3. something that gives binding force, as to an oath, rule of conduct, etc.
4. Law.
a. a provision of a law enacting a penalty for disobedience or a reward for obedience.
b. the penalty or reward.
5. International Law. action by one or more states toward another state calculated to force it to comply with legal obligations.
–verb (used with object)
6. to authorize, approve, or allow: an expression now sanctioned by educated usage.
7. to ratify or confirm: to sanction a law.
8. to impose a sanction on; penalize, esp. by way of discipline.
Origin:
1555–65; < L sānctiōn- (s. of sānctiō), equiv. to sānct(us) (ptp. of sancīre to prescribe by law) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms:
sanc⋅tion⋅a⋅ble, adjective
sanc⋅tion⋅a⋅tive, adjective
sanc⋅tion⋅er, noun
sanc⋅tion⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
6. permit.

Antonyms:
1. disapproval. 6. disapprove.
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Word Origin & History

sanction  (n.)
1563, "confirmation or enactment of a law," from L. sanctionem (nom. sanctio) "act of decreeing or ordaining," also "decree, ordinance," from sanctus, pp. of sancire "to decree, confirm, ratify, make sacred" (see saint). Originally especially of ecclesiastical decrees. The verb sense of "to permit authoritatively" is from 1797. Sanctions, in international diplomacy, first recorded 1919, from sanction (n.) in the sense of "part or clause of a law which spells out the penalty for breaking it" (1651).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: sanction
Function: transitive verb
1 : to give official approval or consent to : RATIFY
2 : to impose a sanction on <sanctioned the lawyer for professional misconduct>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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