[f. as prec.: cf. ACTION.] a. The action of enacting (a law); = ENACTMENT 1. b. concr. = ENACTMENT 2.
1630. J. Craven, Sermon (1631), 14. Laudable enactions; but the misery is … lamentable executions.
1645. J. Goodwin, Innocency Triumph., 78. Without penall enactions against those that cannot obey.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 316, note. His endeavours to prevent the enaction of the stamp act.
1825. Waterton, Wand. S. Amer., IV. ii. 328. Many a vexatious enaction might be put in force.
1888. A. Gustafson, in Voice (N.Y.), 15 March, 10/2. For the enaction of good laws we must have good law-makers.
