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
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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 George William Erskine Russell
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
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
"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 George (George Augustus) Moore
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 George Thibaut
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 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 C.H. Becker
If that journal should speak on this subject at all, we venture to predict it will be seen that it has enounced a great truth, without perceiving its bearing upon the Princeton school of theology.
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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 Henry Drummond
Mr. Podsnap and Mr. Gradgrind enounced the social law.
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography 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
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
Pronunciation is the mode of enouncing certain words and syllables.
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard
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
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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