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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Enforcement \En*force"ment\, n. [Cf. OF enforcement.]
1. The act of enforcing; compulsion.
He that contendeth against these enforcements may
easily master or resist them --Sir W.
Raleigh.
Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement
You got it from her --Shak.
2. A giving force to a putting in execution.
Enforcement of strict military discipline.
--Palfrey.
3. 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. --Locke.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
enforcement
n : the act of enforcing
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