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enounce

[ih-nouns] / ɪˈnaʊns /


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Yet, in spite of Taine's political nihilism, it would be a grave error to suppose that he has no general principle to enounce, or no plan of government to propound.

From Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 by Evelyn Baring

The proposition above-mentioned does not enounce that three angles necessarily exist, but, upon condition that a triangle exists, three angles must necessarily exist—in it.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

Here we feel driven defiantly to enounce the truth: that the highest art, even in a narrow sense, comes only with a true poetic message.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp

"What name shall I enounce?" says he, with a wink at Gregory on the stair.

From The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh by William Makepeace Thackeray

For, to enounce with fitting clearness a great but much-forgotten truth, To have an opinion, you must have an opinion.

From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Charles Kingsley

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 "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

This sounds very just and right, but, as a matter of fact, the policy enounced was never carried out, not even in minor particulars.

From Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future by Arthur D. Hall

In the Celestial Empire, in the Buddhistic and Brahminical societies, the political feature of the civilization is clearly enounced, and clearly understood by each individual member.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

If that journal should speak on this subject at all, we venture to predict it will be seen that it has enounced a great truth, without perceiving its bearing upon the Princeton school of theology.

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

Two years later Thaddeus Stevens, as radical leader in Congress, enounced the same doctrine in no more trenchant terms.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox

The third unites both the former, by enouncing the fact of homogeneity as existing even in the most various diversity, by means of the gradual transition from one species to another.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

I commenced by enouncing the truth that the existence and annihilation of human societies depended upon immutable and uniform laws.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Lord Randolph Churchill once attracted notice by enouncing the homely truth that "the business of an Opposition is to oppose."

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by George William Erskine Russell

She was the traffic of his other brains now, while his lips went on enouncing the phrases of his discourse and his fists thudded the Bible for emphasis.

From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes

He was enouncing a dogma which had become to him indisputable.

From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner




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