ENACTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enactment mean? 

• ENACTMENT (noun)
  The noun ENACTMENT has 3 senses:

1. the passing of a law by a legislative body

2. a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body

3. acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture

  Familiarity information: ENACTMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENACTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The passing of a law by a legislative body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

enactment; passage

Hypernyms ("enactment" is a kind of...):

lawmaking; legislating; legislation (the act of making or enacting laws)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

enact (order by virtue of superior authority; decree)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

act; enactment

Hypernyms ("enactment" is a kind of...):

instrument; legal document; legal instrument; official document ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enactment"):

nullity (something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity))

decree; edict; fiat; order; rescript (a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge))

legislative act; statute (an act passed by a legislative body)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

characterization; enactment; personation; portrayal

Hypernyms ("enactment" is a kind of...):

acting; performing; playacting; playing (the performance of a part or role in a drama)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enactment"):

impression (an impressionistic portrayal of a person)

character; part; persona; role; theatrical role (an actor's portrayal of someone in a play)

Derivation:

enact (act out; represent or perform as if in a play)

 Context examples 

A frequent interlude of these performances was the enactment of the part of Eutychus by some half-dozen of little girls, who, overpowered with sleep, would fall down, if not out of the third loft, yet off the fourth form, and be taken up half dead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)