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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
enounce .
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Examples
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We toiled and sweated and enounced our mutual and sincere conviction that God's grudge still held against us.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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Another equal period elapsed ere the German enounced, relevant of nothing:
A SON OF THE SUN 2010
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Such were the professor's words — rather let me say such the words of fate, enounced to destroy me.
Chapter 3 2010
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After several dukes and markises had been enounced, a very gentell fly drives up to our doar, and out steps two gentlemen.
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I never before or since heard language enounced with such steam-engine haste.
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Essex or Middlesex might have enounced, yet the speaker or reader was no other than Mdlle.
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I have heard some of them talk vigorous sense — yea, I have been present at polyglot discussions in the old, oak-lined dining-room at Hunsden Wood, where a singular insight was given of the sentiments entertained by resolute minds respecting old northern despotisms, and old southern superstitions: also, I have heard much twaddle, enounced chiefly in
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You would suppose that this declaration, so clearly enounced, and that, too, in a place where Mahometanism is perhaps more supreme than in any other part of the empire, would have sufficed to have confirmed the pretensions of the lover.
Eothen 2003
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The king replied: ‘Thou hast adduced this wonderful sally and hast enounced a strange maxim but it is impossible according to reason and contrary to usage that thy accomplishments and eloquence should this day save thee from the punishment which I have decreed; and I consider it proper to throw thee headlong from the castle that others may take an example.’
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She drew, however, a deep sigh from her grief-filled heart and said: ‘All the words thou hast uttered, weighed in the scales of my understanding, are not equivalent to the maxim I once heard enounced in my tribe: An arrow in the side of a young woman is better than an old man.’
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