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enounce

[ih-nauns] / ɪˈnaʊns /


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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

In the same way, Transcendental Analytic was seen to be a canon of the pure understanding; for it alone is competent to enounce true a priori synthetical cognitions.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

Now French is an example of a language without stresses; you know how each syllable falls evenly, all taking an unvarying amount of time to enounce.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

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

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

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

At present, we admit some very curious phenomena, which we would willingly see further examined; but we are unconvinced of those facts of mesmerism enounced by its professors, which wholly contradict our previous experience.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

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

Perhaps the originality of the fundamental idea it expresses may be questioned, on the ground that the same warning has been enounced in far more solemn language, and from a far more august authority.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

Mr. Podsnap and Mr. Gradgrind enounced the social law.

From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography 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

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

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

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




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