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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enounce enounced enouncing

Yet, in spite of Taine's political nihilism, it would be a grave error to suppose that he has no general principle to enounce, or no plan of government to propound.

From Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 by Evelyn Baring

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 Philip H. Goepp

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

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 Marcus Dods

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

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

Perhaps the originality of the fundamental idea it expresses may be questioned, on the ground that the same warning has been enounced in far more solemn language, and from a far more august authority.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

But the main teaching of the miracle is enounced in the words of Jesus: “I am the Resurrection and the Life.”

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods

Such were the professor's words, words of fate enounced to destroy me.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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