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- noun Plural form of
enaction .
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Examples
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So it makes sense for me to look at the style/content in terms of texture -- the words, sentences, paragraphs, scenes, chapters as enactions.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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It would be a bad idea for everyone, and this country, were people to just sit back and wait for the confirmations and the policy enactions before writing, commenting, calling, or otherwise voicing one's opinions.
Top Obama Adviser Hits "The Left Wing Of Our Party" For Criticizing Cabinet Picks 2009
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So it is with Remainder: the Re - enactor's obsessive, amoral re-enactions have ancestors: Ahab and his whale, Humbert and his girl, Marlow's trip downriver.
Two Paths for the Novel Smith, Zadie 2008
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If you believe that the atrocities carried out in the name of Sharia are just the enactions of a different—but entirely valid—set of beliefs from ours, then probably not.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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If you believe that the atrocities carried out in the name of Sharia are just the enactions of a different—but entirely valid—set of beliefs from ours, then probably not.
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South to destroy the tea, were met to resist, not the laws, but illegal enactions.
American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) Various 1899
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Look at the incompetence of our public officers, look at our ruined carrying trade, at those vile enactions of fools, and worse than fools, the
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A vast deal of trouble among servants arises; from impertinent interferences and petty tyrannical enactions on the part of employers.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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His genius is most at home when delineating the darker passages of life and the enactions of guilt and pain.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
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The precept of love must be as old as human nature; but it might admit divers enactions, enforcements, and motives.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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