English
sanctionless
From sanction + -less.
Formed from sanction + -less
Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- ‘to sanctify, to make a treaty’
Proto-Italic *sankiō ‘to consecrate’
Latin sanciō ‘to render, make or appoint as sacred or…’
Latin sānctiō ‘penalty, sanction’
Middle French sanction
English sanction
Today it means
adj For breaking which there is no sanction.
Sources
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