8 uses
- The visits of relations and friends were informally sanctioned by the doctor and overseer, and even by the police captain.Epilogue (25% in)
- Even if she sanctioned it, I wouldn't.Book 5 — Pro And Contra (13% in)
- Grigory Vassilyevitch blames me for rebelling against my birth, but I would have sanctioned their killing me before I was born that I might not have come into the world at all.Book 5 — Pro And Contra (16% in)
- Did we not love mankind, so meekly acknowledging their feebleness, lovingly lightening their burden, and permitting their weak nature even sin with our sanction?Book 5 — Pro And Contra (64% in)
- To be sure you were, and by your consent you silently sanctioned my doing it.Book 11 — Ivan (69% in)
- That's all very charming; but if you want to swindle why do you want a moral sanction for doing it?Book 11 — Ivan (94% in)
- He can't bring himself to swindle without a moral sanction.Book 11 — Ivan (94% in)
- But you must generously allow it, if your sanction is so necessary," Katya added viciously.Epilogue (15% in)
There are no more uses of "sanction" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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