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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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Etymology of 'Enunciate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enunciate" Quotes from Famous Books

... simply thought that she was not so stupid as she was,—the result being that she settled down into her ignorance with some complacency; she lost her timidity, and acquired a self-possession which gave to her "speeches" something of the solemnity with which the British enunciate their patriotic absurdities,—the self-conceit of stupidity, as it ...

— An Old Maid • Honore de Balzac

... stand a good deal of staring unmoved, though it is often accompanied by remarks by no means complimentary; they think that they are not understood, and probably I do misunderstand sometimes. The Waiyau jumble their words as I think, and Mataka thought that I did not enunciate anything, but kept my tongue still ...

— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 • David Livingstone

... first to demonstrate their application to animals. Thenceforward the record has been one of steady progress, and the result of ten years' work has been to establish more and more firmly the fundamental nature of Mendel's discovery. The scheme of inheritance, which he was the first to enunciate, has been found to hold good for such diverse things as height, hairiness, and flower colour and flower form in plants, the shape of pollen grains, and the structure of fruits; while among animals the coat colour of mammals, the form of the feathers and of the comb in poultry, the waltzing ...

— Mendelism - Third Edition • Reginald Crundall Punnett

... as elastic as his heart. Indeed when under the expansive influence of a sufficient quantity of malt extract or ancient brandy from the cellaret on his library desk he had sometimes been heard to enunciate the theory that there was very little difference between the people in jail ...

— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train

... school the young operator is trained to answer requests for numbers, to make and break connections, and to keep account of calls. She is taught to enunciate clearly and to speak courteously and agreeably. She learns to know the board and its numbering. The board is divided into sections and each section comprises a complete multiple. Each multiple consists of eight panels, the panels being divided into "banks." Each bank contains ...

— The Canadian Girl at Work - A Book of Vocational Guidance • Marjory MacMurchy

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