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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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, then, being the law of human life, Christ, being man, must not only enounce but observe it.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus
The Sûtrakâra will distinctly enounce the same view in II, 1, 33.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George
In a word, he judged for himself; and, however much his judgment might run counter to prejudice or tradition, he dared to enounce it and persist in it.
From Matthew Arnold by Russell, George William Erskine
Here we feel driven defiantly to enounce the truth: that the highest art, even in a narrow sense, comes only with a true poetic message.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.
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