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enounce
[ ih-nouns ]
/ ÉŖĖnaŹns /
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verb (used with object), eĀ·nounced, eĀ·nouncĀ·ing.
to utter or pronounce, as words; enunciate.
to announce, declare, or proclaim.
to state definitely, as a proposition.
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Origin of enounce
OTHER WORDS FROM enounce
eĀ·nounceĀ·ment, noununĀ·eĀ·nounced, adjectiveWords nearby enounce
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How to use enounce in a sentence
For, to enounce with fitting clearness a great but much-forgotten truth, To have an opinion, you must have an opinion.
Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays|Charles KingsleyAgainst such cautions I rebelled with a mute, indignant impulse, which I was not old enough to enounce or to argue.
Thus perplexed, Fox Talbot hesitated in 1826 to enounce this fundamental principle.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century|Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) ClerkeSuffice it to have proved that both Old and New Testament enounce the judgment.
The City of God, Volume II|Aurelius Augustine
British Dictionary definitions for enounce
enounce
/ (ÉŖĖnaŹns) /
verb (tr) formal
to enunciate
to pronounce
Derived forms of enounce
enouncement, nounWord Origin for enounce
C19: from French Ć©noncer, from Latin ÄnuntiÄre enunciate
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