enounce
/ɪˈnaʊns
/verb [with object] rare
1Utter or pronounce (words): hers was the only voice able to enounce words that reached his ears...
- He spoke in the tone one might fancy a speaking automaton to enounce its single words.
- The former manager attempted to enounce typical TV platitudes over Rangers' lack of cohesion on Wednesday night's post mortem.
- Gone are the days of beheading royalty and treason for enouncing the monarch's name.
1.1State (a proposition, theory, etc.) in definite terms: the principles enounced in his Notes On Cinematography...
- This is a remarkable proposition for a war memorial to enounce.
- But literature will never be able to do this for itself: it can only "enounce" the truth that the sociological reading "reveals".
- The antecedent comprises the two propositions, the one of which enounces the general rule.
Origin
Early 19th century: from French énoncer, from Latin enuntiare (see enunciate).
- drink like a fish
- drink someone's health
- drink someone under the table
- time sampling
- time-saving
- timescale
- time scheme
- time series
- time-served
- time-server
- time server
- time service
- time-serving
- timeshare
- time-sharer
- time-sharing
- time sheet
- time-shift
- time shutter
- time sight
- time signal
- time-signaling
- time-signalling
- time signature
- time sink