[f. ENFORCE v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. ENFORCE in its various senses. † concr. That which enforces.
138[?]. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., I. 245. Of sich enforsinge mote nedis come mede.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., II. iv. (1495), 31. Aungels dystroye the reeses and the enforcynges of fendes.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., xxxi. 116 (Harl. MS.). When the lion had sight of hem, he Ran to him with a cruell enforsynge.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., IV. iv. 446. This hool argument with alle hise enforcingis.
1531. Elyot, Gov., I. v. (1883), I. 35. Without any violence or inforsinge.
c. 1610–5. Female Saints (1866), 80. After long enforcing she must needes yield nature her due.
1641. H. Ainsworth, Orth. Found. Relig., 12. Love is the inforcing, or motive of the Will, to the thing loved.
