enounce

American  

[ih-nouns] / ɪˈnaʊns /

verb (used with object)

enounced, enouncing

1. to utter or pronounce, as words; enunciate.

2. to announce, declare, or proclaim.

3. to state definitely, as a proposition.

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enounce British  

/ ɪˈnaʊns /

verb

1. to enunciate

2. to pronounce

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Other Word Forms

• enouncement
  noun
• unenounced
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of enounce

1795–1805; e- ¹ + (an)nounce, modeled on French énoncer < Latin ēnuntiāre to tell; see enunciate

Example Sentences

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This, then, being the law of human life, Christ, being man, must not only enounce but observe it.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods

"What name shall I enounce?" says he, with a wink at Gregory on the stair.

From The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh by William Makepeace Thackeray

This proposition cannot therefore enounce the identity of the person, by which is understood the consciousness of the identity of its own substance as a thinking being in all change and variation of circumstances.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

Here we feel driven defiantly to enounce the truth: that the highest art, even in a narrow sense, comes only with a true poetic message.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp

"Hold your tongue!" cried Drake, and he lighted another cigarette preparatory to fixing his whole attention on the paradox that Mike was about to enounce.

From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore

For Pomp, who begs tales of horror and enchantment, Olakunde recounted tales of the red monkey who with withered lips enounced sacred knowledge to the oracles of Oyo.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

"The Law of the Conditioned," as enounced by Hamilton, is contradictory.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

One is not here concerned with the abstract truth of the theory of population enounced by Malthus, but with its applicability to, or its instructiveness in the case of, the England of Queen Victoria.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott

You yourselves do not form an actual moiety of the House of Commons, and I have no means of ascertaining that the majority of that body subscribe to the opinion you have enounced.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by John Charles Dent

The principle of causality, for example, is thus enounced to us:—Every thing that begins to appear necessarily has a cause.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

Mr Sadler, at setting out, abuses Mr Malthus for enouncing his theory in terms taken from the exact sciences.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

I commenced by enouncing the truth that the existence and annihilation of human societies depended upon immutable and uniform laws.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

He was enouncing a dogma which had become to him indisputable.

From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

She was the traffic of his other brains now, while his lips went on enouncing the phrases of his discourse and his fists thudded the Bible for emphasis.

From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes

Pronunciation is the mode of enouncing certain words and syllables.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard