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

See Examples For:

enounce enounced enouncing

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 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

Nor must they foist in a syllable or clip one of the verse, but must enounce firmly and repeat what is set down for them in due order.

From The Growth of English Drama by Wynne, Arnold

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

"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)

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 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 Cousin, Victor

"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 Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

Perhaps, however, these beliefs are here enounced for the last time with the author's assent or acquiescence.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto

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 Hall, Arthur D.

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 Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

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

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