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enactment|ɛˈnæktmənt|
[f. enact v. + -ment.]
1. The action of enacting (a law).
1817Earl of Liverpool Sp. in Evans Parl. Deb. I. 586 The enactment of the present bill. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 604 The enactment of them only confirmed men in their opinion. 1825T. Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. App. 113 The laws of the State, as well of British as of Colonial enactment. 1868Milman St. Paul's viii. 169 The enactment of the Six Articles.
b. The state or fact of being enacted.
1885Law Times 137/1 The draft Criminal Code..appears to be no..nearer to enactment than it was three years ago.
2. That which is enacted; an ordinance of a legislative authority, a statute.
1821Syd. Smith Edin. Rev. Wks. 1859 I. 334/2 A prison is a place where men..should be made unhappy by public lawful enactments. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. i. 34 Many general enactments of this reign bear the same character of servility. 1862Fraser's Mag. Nov. 635 Glass manufactories were crippled by harassing enactments. 1876Green Short Hist. v. §2 (1882) 225 A crowd of enactments for the regulation of trade.
b. pl. The particular provisions of a law.
1839Thirlwall Greece III. 83 We know neither the occasion which gave rise to it, nor the precise nature and extent of its enactments. 1845McCulloch Taxation ii. x. (1852) 353 The enactments were such as might be expected to follow a preamble of this sort.
3. The acting of a part or character in a play. rare—0.
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