Confirmation vs Sanction - What's the difference?
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An official indicator that things will happen as planned
Verification that something has happened
A sacrament of sealing and strengthening in many Christian Churches, often including a ceremony of anointing
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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.
Confirmation is a related term of sanction.
As nouns the difference between confirmation and sanction
is that confirmation is confirmation while sanction is an approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.As a verb sanction is
to ratify; to make valid.confirmation
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(en noun)sanction
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(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.