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The definition of an enactment is the process of making a law, or acting out a scene from a play or document.

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An example of an enactment is to sign a bill into law.
An example of an enactment is a historical event being acted out a high school play.

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See enactment in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

an enacting or being enacted
something enacted, as a law or decree

See enactment in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. The act of enacting.
b. The state of being enacted.
Something that has been enacted: “Dance itself is the enactment of an energy which must seem . . . untrammeled, effortless, masterful” (Susan Sontag).

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