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Enactment   /ɛnˈæktmənt/  /ɛnˈækmənt/   Listen
Enactment

noun
1.
The passing of a law by a legislative body.  Synonym: passage.
2.
A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.  Synonym: act.
3.
Acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture.  Synonyms: characterization, personation, portrayal.






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"Enactment" Quotes from Famous Books



... Surely, however, the enactment of the Leffingwell Law would have united them! Harry knew there was strong opposition, not only on the higher levels but amongst the general population. People would be afraid of the inoculations; theologians would condemn the process; economic interests, real-estate ...
— This Crowded Earth • Robert Bloch

... new form of Railway Accounts came into operation. This new form became compulsory for all railways by the passing, in 1911, of the Railway Companies (Accounts and Returns) Act. This Act is the last general railway enactment that I shall have to mention, for no legislation of importance affecting railways was passed between 1911 and 1913; and since the war began no such legislation has even been attempted, excepting always the Ways and Communications Bill which, ...
— Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland • Joseph Tatlow

... had brought upon him, with the imputation of sacrilege, the hatred of all the papists;—a certain coldness, or timidity, which he had manifested in the cause of religious reformation in other respects, and particularly the enactment of the Six Articles during his administration, had rendered him an object of suspicion or dislike to the protestants;—in his new and undefined office of royal vicegerent for the exercise of the supremacy, he had offended the whole body of the clergy;—and he had just filled up the measure of ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

... Commandments of God. Of these ten, the first three pertain to God Himself, the latter seven to the neighbor; so that the whole might be abridged in these two words, "Love God, and love thy neighbor." This law is in reality only a specified form of the natural law, and its enactment was necessitated by the iniquity of men which had in time obscured and partly effaced the letter of ...
— Explanation of Catholic Morals - A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals • John H. Stapleton

... argumentative, and unanswerably just, my lord," I put in; "but I must be permitted to hint that the validity of all laws is derived from the enactment; now the enactment, or, in the case of a treaty, the virtue of the stipulation, is not derived from the intention of the party who may happen to draw up a law or a clause, but from the assent of the legal deputies. In the present instance, ...
— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper


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