enounce

American  

[ih-nauns] / 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

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Etymology

Origin of enounce

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

enounce enounced enouncing

Against such cautions I rebelled with a mute, indignant impulse, which I was not old enough to enounce or to argue.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

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

In the same way, Transcendental Analytic was seen to be a canon of the pure understanding; for it alone is competent to enounce true a priori synthetical cognitions.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

Cornelius Fronto too could enounce that theory of the reasonable community between men and God, in many different ways.

From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Walter Pater

But where will he find the knowledge which can enable him to enounce synthetical judgements in regard to things which transcend the region of experience?

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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

Such were the professor's words, words of fate enounced to destroy me.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

But this holds good only if our observation is arbitrarily limited to the facts enounced in the expression.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto

This sounds very just and right, but, as a matter of fact, the policy enounced was never carried out, not even in minor particulars.

From Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future by Arthur D. Hall

The principle of Moral Law; thus enounced, "the action of a voluntary agent necessarily characterized as right or wrong, supposes an immutable and universal standard of right--an absolute moral Law."

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

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

The third unites both the former, by enouncing the fact of homogeneity as existing even in the most various diversity, by means of the gradual transition from one species to another.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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

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

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