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
- enouncement noun
- unenounced adjective
Etymology
Origin of enounce
1795–1805; e- 1 + (an)nounce, modeled on French énoncer < Latin ēnuntiāre to tell; enunciate
Example Sentences
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Such were the professor’s words—rather let me say such the words of the fate—enounced to destroy me.
From Literature
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 Literature
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 Project Gutenberg
There are men among them better fitted for the contest against the principle formally enounced in the revised order of business, than for the contest against infallibility.
From Project Gutenberg
It is not our purpose at this point to enter upon a criticism of the philosophical theory thus enounced.
From Project Gutenberg
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