enforcement
nounEtymology
From Old French enforcement, see enforce + -ment.
- derived from infortiāre
- derived from enforcier
- inherited from enforcen
Definitions
The act of enforcing
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.
A giving force to
A giving force to; a putting in execution.
That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to
That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at enforcement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at enforcement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at enforcement
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA