Antonyms for enacting


Grammar : Verb
Spell : en-akt
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈækt


Definition of enacting

Origin :
  • early 15c., from en- (1) "make, put in" + act. Related: Enacted; enacting.
  • verb act out; accomplish
  • verb authorize, legislate
Example sentences :
  • While this scene was enacting, a similar one was taking place on board the Dove.
  • Extract from : « A Voyage round the World » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • I saw that he was now enacting a different rôle—that of marker for the marksmen.
  • Extract from : « The Wild Huntress » by Mayne Reid
  • Did the poor mocked-at heart divine what might be then enacting?
  • Extract from : « The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Complete » by George Meredith
  • The enacting stile of the laws of the United States shall be.
  • Extract from : « The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught » by Charles C. Nott
  • She was Maria, who had been housemaid there during the enacting of that tragedy.
  • Extract from : « Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • While this scene was enacting, the English Justiciars were in session in the Castle.
  • Extract from : « King Robert the Bruce » by A. F. Murison
  • But go back, my dear Talboys, to the first enacting of the Play.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 409, November 1849 » by Various
  • The difficulty is really not in enacting laws for it, but to keep them in vigor.
  • Extract from : « Catholic World, Vol. XIII, April to September, 1871 » by Various
  • She is enacting this melodrama on your breast: she may enact the next on another man's.
  • Extract from : « Red as a Rose is She » by Rhoda Broughton
  • All this time a different scene was enacting at the other end of the table.
  • Extract from : « Lothair » by Benjamin Disraeli

Synonyms for enacting

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