Enact and Prevent

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Enact verb - To put into effect through legislative or authoritative action.

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Prevent is an antonym for enact in topics: authorize, act out.

Nearby Words: enactment, enacting

Prevent verb - To keep from happening by taking action in advance.

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Enact is an antonym for prevent.

kind	enact kind	prevent kind
sort	enact sort	prevent sort
time	enact time	prevent time
world	enact world	prevent world
Other words: escape, genocide, events, crimes.

This is what motivates the antagonist from the sequel to enact The Plan to prevent such things from happening again, because he agreed humans became bastards as a result of their hatreds.

Source: Humans Are Bastards
It's implied that he did so believing he foiled an Orlesian plot to prevent an invasion, using the Blight as an excuse to enact a coup.

Source: Properly Paranoid
Playing the game 3 times, destroying the 3 different gods, was just a Batman Gambit by the 4th god so that he could destroy the gods he was supposed to prevent from running rampant, in order to enact some kind of plot.

Source: Nice Job Breaking It Hero / Video Games

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