Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Enforcement

Enforcement , noun

[Compare Old French enforcement.]

1.
The act of enforcing; compulsion.
He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them. — Sir W. Raleigh
Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her. — Shakespeare
2.
A giving force to; a putting in execution.
Enforcement of strict military discipline. — Palfrey
3.
That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.
The rewards and punishment of another life, which the Almighty has established as the enforcements of his law. — Locke