[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb ENACT in various senses.
1631. Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 83. King Henry still hearing of the murmuring of his Subiects, vpon the enacting of this Statute, writes againe.
1782. Burke, Penal L. agst. Irish Catholics, Wks. VI. 279. In the enacting of which [laws] they do not directly or indirectly vote.
