Empower vs Sanction - What's the difference?
empower | sanction | Synonyms |
To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
* {{quote-book, year=1985, author=William H. Tench, title=Safety is no accident
, passage=Regulations have been made under the Civil Aviation Acts of 1949, 1980 and 1982 which empower Inspectors of Accidents to do these things.}}
To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.
* {{quote-book, year=1992, author=Nick Logan, title=The Face, page=11-130
, passage=Musically, what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects, using natural magic to change people's neurological states and to psychologically empower them.}}
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.
Empower is a synonym of sanction.
In lang=en terms the difference between empower and sanction
is that empower is to give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation while sanction is to penalize (a state etc) with sanctions.As verbs the difference between empower and sanction
is that empower is to give permission, power, or the legal right to do something while sanction is to ratify; to make valid.As a noun sanction is
an approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.empower
English
Alternative forms
* empowre (archaic) * impower (archaic) * impowre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- It's not enough to give women and minorities equal rights on paper; they need to be empowered to be able to make use of these rights.
- John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.
Synonyms
* (give permission to) allow, let, permit * (give confidence to) inspireAntonyms
* (give permission to) ban, bar, forbid, prohibit * (give confidence to) disempower, dishearten, disspiritDerived terms
* empowermentsanction
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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.
