Edict vs Sanction - What's the difference?
edict | sanction | Related terms |
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.
Edict is a related term of sanction.
As nouns the difference between edict and sanction
is that edict is a proclamation of law or other authoritative command while sanction is an approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.As a verb sanction is
to ratify; to make valid.sanction
English
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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.
