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enounce

[ih-nauns] / ɪˈnaʊns /


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Against such cautions I rebelled with a mute, indignant impulse, which I was not old enough to enounce or to argue.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

Cornelius Fronto too could enounce that theory of the reasonable community between men and God, in many different ways.

From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Walter Pater

"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

This, then, being the law of human life, Christ, being man, must not only enounce but observe it.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods

In a word, he judged for himself; and, however much his judgment might run counter to prejudice or tradition, he dared to enounce it and persist in it.

From Matthew Arnold by George William Erskine Russell

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

But we must observe, in conclusion, that the doctrine just enounced is by no means a novelty.

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith

The judgements enounced by pure reason must be necessary, or they must not be enounced at all.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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

The relationship of the Qoran to Christianity has been already noted: it was a book which preached rather than taught and enounced isolated laws but no connected system.

From Christianity and Islam by C.H. Becker

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

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

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

Pronunciation is the mode of enouncing certain words and syllables.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard

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

Mr Sadler, at setting out, abuses Mr Malthus for enouncing his theory in terms taken from the exact sciences.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay




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