enactment
US/ɛnˈæktmənt/
enactment noun: the act of playing the part of.
Noun
enactment (countable and uncountable, plural enactments)
- The act of playing the part of.
- The actors' powerful enactment of the play was breathtaking.
- The act of making (a bill) into law.
- The enactment of this law will be a great step backward for our country.
- A piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body.
- The enactments passed by the council that year included sweeping reforms.
enactment meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
enactment in Hindi
- अधिनियमन
enactment in Tamil
- இயற்றிய சட்டம், சட்டம், செய் சட்டம், செய்சட்டம், நியமம்
enactment in Marathi
- अधिनियमन
enactment in Bengali
- আইন প্রণয়ন
More languagesFewer languages
- enactment in Malayalam
- നിയമമാക്കൽ, ചട്ടമുണ്ടാക്കൽ, നിയമനിർമ്മാണം, അംഗീകരണം
- enactment in Kannada
- ಜಾರಿ jāri
- enactment in Nepali
- अधिनियमन
- enactment in Malay
- enakmen
- enactment in Indonesian
- pemeragaan, undang-undang
Examples of enactment in a sentence
- Even intradenominationally, each church community develops its own ideal mode of ritual enactments.
- The self may enact its distress as well as explain it, but the enactment can be misconstrued.
- The quote suggests that enactment becomes recognized as reenactment, recognized as a matter of againness, through explicit theatricality.
Forms of enactment
| plural | enactments |
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Origin of enactment
From enact + -ment.
Words formed from enactment
Questions about enactment
- What does enactment mean?
- Enactment means the act of playing the part of.
- What is enactment in Hindi?
- Enactment in Hindi is अधिनियमन. See Enactment meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is enactment?
- Enactment is a noun.
- How do you pronounce enactment?
- Enactment is pronounced /ɛnˈæktmənt/ (US).
- What is the plural of enactment?
- The plural of enactment is enactments.
Words near enactment in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: enactment (page history and authors); enactment (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); enactment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enactment (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); enactment (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enactment (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ಜಾರಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); enactment (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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