🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

Promulgação

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pro-mul-ga-sao

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Enactment/ɪˈnækt.mənt/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A promulgação da nova lei foi bem recebida."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The process of making a law or regulation official.

    "The enactment of the new law was celebrated by the community."
  2. 2

    A law or regulation that has been formally enacted.

    "The enactment of the policy led to significant changes in the education system."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb enact, combining the prefix en- (meaning 'in' or 'to cause to be') with the Middle English 'nacten', originating from Latin 'actus' (act or deed). Over time, it evolved to specifically denote the formal process of making a piece of legislation legally binding or the performance of an action.

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