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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"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)
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 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
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
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