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/ɪnˈənsiˌeɪt/ /inˈənsiˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Enunciate v. t. (past & past part. enunciated; pres. part. enunciating)

To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth. "The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel."

To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly.

Enunciate v. i. To utter words or syllables articulately.

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"Enunciate" Quotes from Famous Books

... Lauzans, Montesquieus, Lameths, Mirabeaus, the Duc d'Orleans, first prince of the blood, the Count de Provence, brother of the king, king himself afterwards as Louis XVIII., had given an impulse to the boldest innovations. They had each borrowed their momentary popularity from principles easier to enunciate than restrain, and that popularity had nearly forsaken them all. So soon as these theorists of speculative revolution saw that they were carried away in the torrent, they attempted to ascend the stream from whose source they had started; some again surrounded ...

— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine

... seat. A question crawled in her brain, tormenting. Finally she managed to enunciate a ...

— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance

... daily efforts, use the best chest voice at your command, enunciate clearly, open your mouth well, and imagine yourself addressing an actual audience. A month's regular practise of this exercise will convince you of ...

— Model Speeches for Practise • Grenville Kleiser

... these organizations are at present in power in revolutionary Russia, it may be quite appropriate to enunciate their fundamental principles. ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

... author for the visual beauty of the words on the page. (3) The sound of the words, either actually uttered or imagined by the brain to be uttered. Now it is indubitable that words differ in beauty of sound. To my mind one of the most beautiful words in the English language is "pavement." Enunciate it, study its sound, and see what you think. It is also indubitable that certain combinations of words have a more beautiful sound than certain other combinations. Thus Tennyson held that the most beautiful line ...

— Literary Taste: How to Form It • Arnold Bennett

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