inforcement

Noun

enforcement (usually uncountable, plural enforcements)

1. (usually) The act of enforcing; compulsion.
   • [M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come.1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria [i.e., Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], “The Seconde Booke of the Fyrste Decade to Ascanius Phorcia [i.e., Ascanio Sforza], Vicounte Cardinall. &c.”, in Rycharde Eden [i.e....
2. (usually) A giving force to; a putting in execution.
3. (usually) That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.