Salvation vs Sanction - What's the difference?
salvation | sanction |
(religion) The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).
The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved.
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.
As nouns the difference between salvation and sanction
is that salvation is (religion) the process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell) while sanction is an approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.As a verb sanction is
to ratify; to make valid.salvation
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Alternative forms
* salvatioun (obsolete)Noun
- In Islam, salvation is achieved by praying in the mosque to Allah and following the sunnah of Muhammad.
Antonyms
* (in religion) damnationsanction
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(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.