enounce

American  

[ih-nauns] / 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

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Etymology

Origin of enounce

1795–1805; e- ¹ + (an)nounce, modeled on French énoncer < Latin ēnuntiāre to tell; see enunciate

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Example Sentences

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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 John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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

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

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 Kenneth Morris

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 Arnold Wynne

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

You will see that here is enounced something common to our nature.

From The State of the Blessed Dead by Henry Alford

The theory of solar energy now generally regarded as the true one was enounced by Helmholtz in a popular lecture in 1854.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

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 Otto Heller

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 Victor Cousin

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 T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

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

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

He was enouncing a dogma which had become to him indisputable.

From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

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