enacture
English edit
Etymology edit
enact + -ure, a Shakespearean coinage.
Noun edit
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.