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Definition of enounce in English: enounceverb ɪˈnaʊns [with object]rare 1Utter or pronounce (words) hers was the only voice able to enounce words that reached his ears Example sentencesExamples - At his command the chorister enounced the prophet's song.
- Gone are the days of beheading royalty and treason for enouncing the monarch's name.
- He spoke in the tone one might fancy a speaking automaton to enounce its single words.
- The student should be able to enounce these sounds independently.
- The former manager attempted to enounce typical TV platitudes over Rangers' lack of cohesion on Wednesday night's post mortem.
- 1.1 State (a proposition, theory, etc.) in definite terms.
the principles enounced in his Notes On Cinematography Example sentencesExamples - This is a remarkable proposition for a war memorial to enounce.
- Wordsworth's theory was perhaps not enounced with perfect clearness.
- The antecedent comprises the two propositions, the one of which enounces the general rule.
- But literature will never be able to do this for itself: it can only "enounce" the truth that the sociological reading "reveals".
- The proposition is incontestable yet incompletely enounced.
Origin Early 19th century: from French énoncer, from Latin enuntiare (see enunciate). |