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

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 Pater, Walter

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

"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)

Now French is an example of a language without stresses; you know how each syllable falls evenly, all taking an unvarying amount of time to enounce.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

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

Perhaps the originality of the fundamental idea it expresses may be questioned, on the ground that the same warning has been enounced in far more solemn language, and from a far more august authority.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill

Comte has not more explicitly enounced the incapacity of man to deal with the Absolute and the Infinite than the whole series of orthodox writers.

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

The relationship of the Qoran to Christianity has been already noted: it was a book which preached rather than taught and enounced isolated laws but no connected system.

From Christianity and Islam by Becker, C.H.

Nothing could be more confused or worse enounced, than the ambiguous and disjointed replies of Bonaparte.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by De Quincey, Thomas

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)

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)

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

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