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SANCTIONING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sanctioning mean?
• SANCTIONING (adjective)
The adjective SANCTIONING has 1 sense:
1. implying sanction or serving to sanction
Familiarity information: SANCTIONING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Implying sanction or serving to sanction
Synonyms:
sanctionative; sanctioning
Context example:
the guardian's duties were primarily sanctionative rather than administrative
Similar:
enabling (providing legal power or sanction)
Context examples
Right here, I think, entered the austere conscience of my Puritan ancestry, impelling me toward lurid deeds and sanctioning even murder as right conduct.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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