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Older then that. I remember discussing the word and its opposed interpretations in my student days back in the seventies. This was in Danish, but same word ('sa
by interfixus 7y ago
Older then that. I remember discussing the word and its opposed interpretations in my student days back in the seventies.
This was in Danish, but same word ('sanktion'), same meanings.
- schoen 7y agoI guess the history of this auto-antonym is that in Latin, it refers to a decree or rule—which could potentially be a decree allowing something, or a decree forbidding something.