enounce

[ ih-nouns ]

verb (used with object)

, e·nounced, e·nounc·ing.

1. to utter or pronounce, as words; enunciate.
2. to announce, declare, or proclaim.
3. to state definitely, as a proposition.

enounce

/ ɪˈnaʊns /

verb

1. to enunciate
2. to pronounce

Derived Forms

• eˈnouncement, noun

Other Words From

• e·nouncement noun
• une·nounced adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of enounce¹

1795–1805; e- ¹ + (an)nounce, modeled on French énoncer < Latin ēnuntiāre to tell; enunciate

Word History and Origins

Origin of enounce¹

C19: from French énoncer, from Latin ēnuntiāre enunciate

Example Sentences

Such were the professor’s words—rather let me say such the words of the fate—enounced to destroy me.

From Literature

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 Literature

One is not here concerned with the abstract truth of the theory of population enounced by Malthus, but with its applicability to, or its instructiveness in the case of, the England of Queen Victoria.

From Project Gutenberg

There are men among them better fitted for the contest against the principle formally enounced in the revised order of business, than for the contest against infallibility.

From Project Gutenberg

Why not enounce, as the fundamental principle of one's theory, the assertion, All men are idiots?

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