Sanction vs Approbate - What's the difference?
sanction | approbate |
An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
A penalty, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.
A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying the above.
To ratify; to make valid.
To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
To penalize (a State etc.) with sanctions.
approved
* 1531 , Thomas Elyot, The Boke named The Governour
To give official sanction, consent or authorization
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As verbs the difference between sanction and approbate
is that sanction is to ratify; to make valid while approbate is to give official sanction, consent or authorization.As a noun sanction
is an approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.As an adjective approbate is
approved.sanction
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Many of the most earnest Protestants were business men, to whom lending money at interest was essential. Consequently first Calvin, and then other Protestant divines, sanctioned interest.
approbate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- And if they wyll allege that all thynge contayned in holy scripture is approbate by the hole consent of all the clergie of Christendoms