Honor and Sanction

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Honor noun - Faithfulness to high moral standards.

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Sanction is an antonym for honor.

Nearby Words: honour, honorable, honored, honoured, honorably

Sanction noun - The approval by someone in authority for the doing of something.

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Honor is an antonym for sanction in topics: authorization, embargo.

Nearby Words: sanctioned, sanctity, sanctioning

The Virginia Military Institute has a "single-sanction" honor system, meaning that all violators of the honor code are dismissed.

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