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enacture en · NOUN

Etymology

From enact + -ure, a Shakespearean coinage.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) action, act of enacting
    • The violence of either grief or joy Their own enactures with themselves destroy. c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

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