Meanings of divine sanction in inglês

They would not act without a divine sanction to their whispered plans.

Thus Bobsey gave a kind of divine sanction to our project.

Also, there remains, notwithstanding this objection, no divine sanction in or upon the old seventh day sabbath.

These rights and duties have been revealed, through the conscience of society, to have a divine sanction.

But the bolder advocates of ecclesiastical power were ready to explain away the divine sanction of temporal authority.

Reject without hesitation, whatever is presented to you as truth, unless reason throws its divine sanction around it.

He certainly did not regard sacrifice as essential to the true religion, or as possessing any specially divine sanction, vii.

It has been from its origin, and it remains still at present, the divine sanction of brutal force and triumphant inequality.

They assume their right to choose that and to authorize it when there is only a divine sanction possible to authorize that.

To mingle the Imperial blood with a creature born without a title, and to demand human and divine sanction for the deed!

We create new rituals all the time, and it is possible to have a sense of piety without any belief in tradition or divine sanction.

What he meant was that the papal supremacy in the government of the Church had endured so long that the divine sanction was upon it.

Numa gave to his people civil statutes, and a code of observances in matters of religion; and these also were inforced with a divine sanction.

Its supporters, claiming for themselves the liberty of interpreting the Scriptures according to their own judgment, maintained that they had divine sanction for their teaching.

Claiming to have an exclusive divine sanction to perform healing work, these priests used various ceremonies, rites, incantations, etc., in order to obtain their results.

Three-quarters of it (as Matthew Arnold says) has to do with conduct; it is a code with a very positive and keen divine sanction.