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Imposure vs Imposition - What's the difference?

imposure | imposition | Synonyms |

Imposition is a synonym of imposure.



As nouns the difference between imposure and imposition

is that imposure is the act of imposing while imposition is the act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

imposure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rare) The act of imposing.
  • *1963 , W. M. Kephart, "Experimental Family Organization: An Historico-Cultural Report on the Oneida Community," William M. Kephart, Marriage and Family Living , vol. 25, no. 3, p. 265:
  • *:Conformity was maintained through a patterned series of social controls which, contrary to the usual system of imposure , actually emanated from within the membership.
  • *1992 , Susan Tiefenbrun, "Semiotics and Martin Luther King's ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’," Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature , vol. 4, no. 2, p. 257:
  • *:Just as the imposure of a code limits the entropy of system, be it aesthetic, legal or other, so the semantic context of a text limits and controls the interpretation of its coded message.
  • *2007 , " Who is bothered by the gambling business?," New Europe: The European Weekly , 20 Nov. (retrieved 9 Feb. 2009):
  • *:According to the CORPORATE INCOME IMPOSURE LAW, a tax for numerical games such as toto, lotto or lottery will be imposed only on what’s left after you subtract the winnings from the income.

    • Synonyms

    * imposition

    References

    *" imposure" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .

    imposition

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia imposition) (en noun)
  • The act of imposing]], laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, [[obtrude, obtruding, and the like.
  • That which is imposed, levied]], or [[enjoin, enjoined.
  • An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put or laid on others.
  • (printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
  • (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
  • (UK) A task imposed on a student as punishment.

    • Synonyms

    * (act of imposing and the like) imposure, infliction, obtrusion * burden, charge, enjoinder, injunction, tax * cheating, deception, delusion, fraud, imposture, trick

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