imposure
imposure noun: the act of imposing.
Noun
imposure (countable and uncountable, plural imposures)
- The act of imposing.
- Conformity was maintained through a patterned series of social controls which, contrary to the usual system of imposure, actually emanated from within the membership.1963, W. M. Kephart, "Experimental Family Organization: An Historico-Cultural Report on the Oneida Community," William M. Kephart, Marriage and Family Living, vol. 25, no. 3, p. 265
- Just as the imposure of a code limits the entropy of system, be it aesthetic, legal or other, so the semantic context of a text limits and controls the interpretation of its coded message.1992, Susan Tiefenbrun, “Semiotics and Martin Luther King's ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’”, in Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, volume 4, number 2, page 257
- Synonyms:
- imposition
Synonyms of imposure
Forms of imposure
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Questions about imposure
- What does imposure mean?
- Imposure means the act of imposing.
- What part of speech is imposure?
- Imposure is a noun.
- What is the plural of imposure?
- The plural of imposure is imposures.
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