Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or mode of enunciating or pronouncing; manner of utterance: pronunciation or utterance: used especially with reference to manner.
- noun The act of announcing or stating, or that which is announced; deliberate or definite declaration; public attestation.
- noun In logic, a proposition; that which is subject to truth and falsity; a judgment set forth in words.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration.
- noun Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation.
- noun That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
enunciating , announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth. - noun Mode of utterance or
pronunciation , especially as regards fullness anddistinctness orarticulation ; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation. - noun That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
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Examples
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The term enunciation means the formation of words, including right vocal shape to the vowels and right form to the consonants.
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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The enunciation is very clear, so it is an easy language to understand.
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More than this, the press of enunciation is aimed toward the very object of its own discursive gesture across the drift from the phonetically denominated "double-u" to its single and more immediately recognized graphic variant.
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Poets who do not pass will be required to split their reading fee with a “reading out loud” specialist, professionally certified in enunciation and projection.
notes from a poetry festival : Jeffrey McDaniel : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The structure of the prohibitory examples above is similar to the structure of the famous "liar's paradox," and they generally submit to the same kind of resolution that Lacan brought to the statement "I am lying": a separation of the subject of enunciation from the subject of the statement, a segregation of frames.
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She said she had insisted on correct enunciation from the first.
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It’s interesting how both American and British the teacher’s enunciation is compared to my experience of listening to teachers of English in South Korea who are Korean.
New York Philharmonic in Asia: English Lessons in Pyongyang - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Each is like a subject of the statement endowed with a relative power, and these relative powers combine in a subject of enunciation, that is, the chess player or the game?
What Smart People Think about My Favorite Game « Gerry Canavan 2007
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Each is like a subject of the statement endowed with a relative power, and these relative powers combine in a subject of enunciation, that is, the chess player or the game?
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-- It must be remembered that when for the sake of exercise or effect syllables are extended in time, they must be so uttered that their identity is not impaired, -- that is, their enunciation must be free from mouthing.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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