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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enforcement" Quotes from Famous Books

... upon this subject ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not in any case surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that "the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the ...

— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... proportional representation and the right of recall, might be adopted. There is no apparent reason why all legislation, except temporary legislation as in war time, famine, plague, and such abnormal conditions, could not be directly initiated and enacted, leaving only the just and proper enforcement of the law to delegated authority. In practically all the political programmes of Socialist parties throughout the world, these principles are included at the present time; not merely as means to secure a greater degree of political democracy within the existing ...

— Socialism - A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles • John Spargo

... Writing" is a delightful enforcement of the "ordinary criticism" that "my Lord Shaftesbury, and Sir William Temple, are models of the genteel style in writing," though Elia prefers to differentiate them as "the lordly and the gentlemanly." The essay is, for the most ...

— Charles Lamb • Walter Jerrold

... flask at the reluctant mouth, till Angelo tripped him and made him a subject for derision; whereupon they were all good friends. Musket on shoulder, the soldiers descended, blowing at their finger-nails and puffing at their tobacco—lauter kaiserlicher (rank Imperial), as with a sad enforcement of resignation they had, while lighting, characterized the universally detested Government issue of ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... full sovereignty over the females born in the herd as well as over those whom his prowess had perhaps added to it from time to time. The young male on the other hand was not condemned to a life of celibacy as a condition of his non-enforcement of the traditional decree of banishment. He was permitted to find a mate, but she must be a mate not born in the herd, nor one of the harem of his sire; he had, if he wished to wed, to capture a spouse ...

— Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia • Northcote W. Thomas

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