enacture

English

Etymology

enact +‎ -ure, a Shakespearean coinage.

Noun

enacture (plural enactures)

(obsolete) action, act of enacting
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
  The violence of either grief or joy
  Their own enactures with themselves destroy.

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