re-enactmentn.
/ˌriːᵻˈnak(t)m(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌriəˈnæk(t)m(ə)nt/ 1.
a. A further enactment of a previous law, regulation, etc.; a law or regulation which is brought into effect again.
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1775 S. Douglas Hist. Cases Controverted Elections I. ii. xi. 384 There were some people who..endeavoured to explain the statute so as to make it nothing more than a re-enactment of the 7th and 8th of William the Third.
1858 C. Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. IV. xv. 250 The Navigation Act..was in substance a re-enactment of the famous measure of the Long Parliament in 1651.
1910 P. A. Bruce Institutional Hist. Virginia in 17th Cent. i. xxii. 239 The statute passed in March 1662-3 (which was perhaps a re-enactment of a measure adopted in a previous year).
1998 Duke Law Jrnl. 47 1050 It is not even clear that a reenactment would have frozen the preexisting FDA view.
b. The fact or process of bringing a law, regulation, etc. into effect again.
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society > law > legislation > [noun] > passing into law > renewed
re-enacting1638
re-enaction1788
re-enactment1806
1806 Ann. Reg. 1804 (Otridge ed.) Hist. Europe 14/2 Lord Limerick positively asserted that the re-enactment of those bills was absolutely necessary for the tranquility of the country.
1860 J. Forster Deb. Grand Remonstr. 2 The Petition..was but the affirmation and re-enactment of the precedents of the three foregoing centuries.
1893 Dict. National Biogr. XXXVI. 347/2 She consented to the re-enactment of the statute against lollardy.
1936 Times 23 June 17/2 The colliery owners continue to insist upon the re-enactment of the conditions in the Act of 1930.
1993 R. Walker Commerc. Loans (BNC) 48 References to a specific statute include any..extension or..re-enactment of such statute.
2008 Manila Bull. (Nexis) 1 Feb. A budget deadlock that year led to the reenactment of the previous year's budget.
2. The action or process of reproducing, recreating, or performing again; esp. the action or process of acting out a past event. Also: an instance of this.
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1815 Liverpool Mercury 8 Dec. 178/2 Poor, abject France... Do you think that the re-enactment of the tragedy of Waterloo would now be succeeded by the abandonment of Napoleon?
1839 W. G. Simms Damsel of Darien I. i. 15 The next moment reveals to us a reenactment of the sin and the shame, from which the bravest and the boldest among them could not long maintain the ‘whiteness of their souls’.
1895 T. Hardy Jude vi. v. 466 It was like a re-enactment by the ghosts of their former selves of the similar scene which had taken place..years before.
1942 T. S. Eliot Little Gidding ii. 11 The rending pain of re-enactment Of all that you have done, and been.
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 May 46/5 On the first Sunday in July there is a re-enactment of the Great Rendezvous, when Canadian and American boy scouts arrive by canoe.
1992 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 21 Dec. 14/1 The nine-night ritual of the posada, the re-enactment of Mary and Joseph's desperate search for shelter in Bethlehem.
2004 I. Dimitriu in A.k.a. Breyten Breytenbach vi. 120 The Yoruba consider tragic destiny to be the re-enactment of Ogun's right of passage from death to life renewed.
Compounds
re-enactment society n. an association whose members re-enact events (often battles) from a particular historical period, in replica costume and using replica weapons, etc.; cf. re-enactor n.
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1975 Atlanta Daily World 30 Nov. 3/5 Trained in military procedure and drill of the Eighteenth Century by the Second Georgia Battalion of the National Reenactment Society.
1992 Indiamail 22 Sept. 3/3 The infamous King, and his courtiers and ambassadors, are being played by a dozen members of a re-enactment society.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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