enounce
Americanverb (used with object)
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to utter or pronounce, as words; enunciate.
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to announce, declare, or proclaim.
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to state definitely, as a proposition.
verb
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to enunciate
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to pronounce
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of enounce
1795–1805; e- 1 + (an)nounce, modeled on French énoncer < Latin ēnuntiāre to tell; see enunciate
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Yet, in spite of Taine's political nihilism, it would be a grave error to suppose that he has no general principle to enounce, or no plan of government to propound.
From Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 by Baring, Evelyn
The proposition above-mentioned does not enounce that three angles necessarily exist, but, upon condition that a triangle exists, three angles must necessarily exist—in it.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
"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 Moore, George (George Augustus)
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 Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
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 Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
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 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 Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
But this holds good only if our observation is arbitrarily limited to the facts enounced in the expression.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
But the main teaching of the miracle is enounced in the words of Jesus: “I am the Resurrection and the Life.”
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Dods, Marcus
The theory of solar energy now generally regarded as the true one was enounced by Helmholtz in a popular lecture in 1854.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
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 Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
He was enouncing a dogma which had become to him indisputable.
From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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 Hughes, Rupert
Lord Randolph Churchill once attracted notice by enouncing the homely truth that "the business of an Opposition is to oppose."
From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine
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