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
Example Sentences
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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
"What name shall I enounce?" says he, with a wink at Gregory on the stair.
From The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh by William Makepeace Thackeray
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 John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
For, to enounce with fitting clearness a great but much-forgotten truth, To have an opinion, you must have an opinion.
From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Charles Kingsley
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 John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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
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 Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
Two years later Thaddeus Stevens, as radical leader in Congress, enounced the same doctrine in no more trenchant terms.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox
You will see that here is enounced something common to our nature.
From The State of the Blessed Dead by Henry Alford
The judgements enounced by pure reason must be necessary, or they must not be enounced at all.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Pronunciation is the mode of enouncing certain words and syllables.
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard
He was enouncing a dogma which had become to him indisputable.
From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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 George William Erskine Russell
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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 Rupert Hughes
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