Read full poem →The folly which at times desired
A sanction for so great a joy.
Dictionary Entry
An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
In a Sentence
“The whalers had been operating in the contested waters off the island with sanction from the Japanese government.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. sanctionsanction legalsanction pragmaticsanction official
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “sanction”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →This foolish zeal of lip for lip,
This fond, self-sanction’d, wilful zest,
Is that elect relationship
Read full poem →From dear persuasion of the dim-lit hour,
And doubted sanction of her sparkling eyes,
Thus supplicates her conjugal assent,
Read full poem →But those who eat, and look no higher,
From sin or doubtful sanction draw
The biting sauce their feasts require.
Read full poem →The wedded yoke that each had donn'd
Seeming a sanction, not a bond.
Read full poem →Our time is near at hand.
The sanction of the world's undying hate
Means more than flaunted flags in windy air.
Read full poem →No matter--wrong was right and right was wrong,
And freedom's bawl was sanction to the song.
--Such was thy ruin, music-making elm;
Read full poem →_Bride of Messina_), or of Alfieri (in _Mirra_), "in modern times,"
would sanction the intrusion of the [Greek: miseto\n] into English
literature. The early drafts and variants of the MS. do not afford any
Read full poem →The scheme--
Carlisle 's mad scheme--he 'll sanction it, I fear,
For love of me. 'T was too precipitate:
Read full poem →its authority? In absolute governments, there is, sometimes, a general
reverence paid to all that has the sanction of power, and the countenance
of greatness. How little this is the state of our country needs not to be