non-enforcementn.
/ˌnɒnᵻnˈfɔːsm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌnɑnənˈfɔrsm(ə)nt/ Lack of enforcement of a law, threat, etc.; unwillingness or failure to enforce a rule or law.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun] > compelling the fulfilment or performance of > not
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1813 Hereford Jrnl. 7 Apr. 1/1 A change has taken place in the Regency, in consequence of a dispute with the Cortes respecting the non-enforcement of the reading in all churches of their decree abolishing the Inquisition.
1848 Spectator 5 Feb. 117/2 The causes of crime... It is the priesthood, says one; the non-enforcement of the law, says another.
1893 Dict. National Biogr. XXXIV. 184/1 The non-enforcement of Lord Hardinge's threats of seven years previously had had a widespread influence for evil.
1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. v. 223 It is not right to read too much into the non-enforcement of the will.
1992 Jrnl. Abnormal Child Psychol. 20 24 The six individual scales aggregate to form three, higher-order factors: acceptance (e.g., child-centeredness), lax control (e.g., nonenforcement), and psychological control.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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