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ˈsanctioning, ppl. a. [f. sanction v. + -ing2.] 1. a. That sanctions or authorizes.
1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 51 What they call ‘Honour’, the sanctioning deity of which is that wonderful ‘Force of Public Opinion’. 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy iv. 305 Their keen love of family and tribe Shall no more thrive on cunning, hide and lurk In petty arts of abject hunted life, But grow heroic in the sanctioning light. 1880G. Meredith Tragic Com. (1881) 87 They meet beneath the sanctioning roof of the amiable professor. b. That imposes or maintains sanctions. Cf. sanction n. 2 d. rare.
1976Individualist Dec. 66/2 South Africa will surely fall, and another great satellite state will have been created in a powerful strategic position. Have the ‘santioning’ countries considered this? 2. Law. Of a right: Creating or providing a sanction; arising as a consequence of a delict or wrong. Cf. sanctioned ppl. a. 2.
1832Austin Jurispr. (1873) I. 45 Rights and duties which are consequences of delicts, are sanctioning (or preventive) and remedial (or reparative). Ibid. II. 790 Those [rights and duties] which I call secondary or sanctioning (I style them sanctioning because their proper purpose is to prevent delicts or offences) arise from violations of other rights and duties, or from injuries, delicts, or offences. |