Sanctions
['sæŋkʃən]
Examples
- He had done nothing exceptional in marrying--nothing but what society sanctions, and considers an occasion for wreaths and bouquets. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Less direct minds would have found high-sounding ethical sanctions in which to conceal the real intent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Give me five minutes of your attention; and I will undertake to show you that Science sanctions my proposal, fanciful as it may seem. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I know my Maker sanctions what I do. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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