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noun

Enforcement n.

The act of enforcing; compulsion. "He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them." "Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her."

A giving force to; a putting in execution. "Enforcement of strict military discipline."

That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied. "The rewards and punishment of another life, which the Almighty has established as the enforcements of his law."

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Etymology of 'Enforcement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enforcement" Quotes from Famous Books

... led him easily, in the first instance, to acquiesce in the views of his friend, and then the ardor of his own nature, and the self-kindling power of his eloquence, threw an earnestness and fire into his public enforcement of those views, which made even himself forget that they were but adopted from another, and impressed upon his hearers the conviction that they were all, and from ...

— Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan V1 • Thomas Moore

... peace was sent to persuade him into some kind of compliance. Various insurrections had broken out since his arrest, and must have shown him, if he could have reflected, that there was real reason for the temporary enforcement of the Act. He was not asked to give up preaching. He was asked only to give up public preaching. It was well known that he had no disposition to rebellion. Even the going to church was not insisted on. The clerk of the peace told him that he might 'exhort his neighbours ...

— Bunyan • James Anthony Froude

... Western power ever thought of attempting. Certainly not last among the causes for its overthrow was the discontent aroused by its anti-opium policy. And now it is reported that individualism run mad among the revolutionary leaders has led to a slackening in the enforcement of the rules, and ...

— A Wayfarer in China - Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia • Elizabeth Kendall

... key to the land approaches of Richmond; its great facilities of re-enforcement and supply by propinquity to the depots at Washington and elsewhere; and the determined intention of the Federals to hold and use it, ...

— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon

... and you can't tell. I am glad if you can't. The physical mysteries of the universe are being unveiled so swiftly that one likes to find something that still keeps its secret—though, indeed, the spiritual mysteries seem in no danger of such enforcement. ...

— More Jonathan Papers • Elisabeth Woodbridge

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