Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To declare formally; state.
- transitive verb To pronounce clearly; enunciate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To utter; declare; enunciate; state, as a proposition or an argument.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.
- transitive verb To utter; to articulate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
say orpronounce ; toenunciate . - verb To
declare orproclaim . - verb To
state unequivocally .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For example, the rage generated by terrorism leads us to enounce principles such as "no negotiations with terrorists."
Carlo Strenger: Lessons from 9/11: Cool-Headedness More Effective than Rage in Fighting Terrorism Carlo Strenger 2011
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A thousand times, YES! idiotic must reject and denounce and deject and renounce and project and pronounce and eject and enounce.
Big Pro-Hillary Third-Party Group Won't Be Funding Ads In West Virginia 2009
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“What name shall I enounce?” says he, with a wink at
Mrs. Perkins's Ball 2006
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Others, however, enounce a contrary opinion and say that it is preferable to respite captives because the option of killing or not killing remains; but if they be slain without delay, it is possible that some advantage may be lost, the like of which cannot be again obtained.
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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.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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I rebelled with a mute, indignant impulse, which I was not old enough to enounce or to argue.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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_ 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.
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 Kenneth Morris 1908
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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.
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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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.
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To define anything, then, is to discover its essence, whether transcendent or immanent; and to predicate the definition, or any part of it (genus or difference), is to enounce an essential proposition.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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