Formal approval of a proposed law in monarchies.
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Examples for "royal assent "
1 After three years of debate in parliament, royal assent has been approved.
2 For on that day the Habeas Corpus Act received the royal assent .
3 It passed through both houses without opposition, and received the royal assent .
4 The lieutenant governor gave royal assent to the bill on Thursday afternoon.
5 Three days later the bill received the royal assent , and became law.
1 The royal sanction had rendered the above decree a law of the State.
2 They agreed to the amendment; and nothing was now wanting but the royal sanction .
3 There were weavers' guilds in several towns given royal sanction .
4 Priam's arm was encircling his shoulder, giving royal sanction to whatever he would say.
5 The royal sanction gave rise to great debates in the assembly, and violent clamours without.
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