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- verb Present participle of
enounce .
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Examples
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I am very familiar with Dennis Prager, the conservative talk show host, who started as a radio host enouncing his idea of Judeo-Christian heritage, and how Europe has become decadent and faltered for it has renounced this heritage and become secular.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What Fraction of the Population is Gay or Lesbian? 2007
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You can almost hear her disdainfully enouncing the word "rush" as you read the sentence.
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Pronunciation is the mode of enouncing certain words and syllables.
The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard
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Lord Randolph Churchill once attracted notice by enouncing the homely truth that "the business of an Opposition is to oppose."
Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences George William Erskine Russell 1886
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* These words were written by Tchaadaef, who, a few years before, had vigorously attacked the Slavophils for enouncing similar views.
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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How differently during those night hours did the warnings of his mother appear to him, and the restraint of his father in enouncing the supreme will, and even the stern conduct of the minister, Herhor.
The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879
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When the young man had finished the prayers and approached the table to take his place, there was heard a voice from among those present, enouncing the words in such a way that they seemed sung:
An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story Eliza Orzeszkowa 1876
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He is entirely original in arriving at the doctrine of the variability of organic types, and in enouncing it after long hesitation, during which one can watch the labour of a great intelligence freeing itself little by little from the yoke of orthodoxy.
Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868
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Mr Sadler, at setting out, abuses Mr Malthus for enouncing his theory in terms taken from the exact sciences.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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But to assume that the soul is a simple substance (a transcendental conception) would be enouncing a proposition which is not only indemonstrable -- as many physical hypotheses are -- but a proposition which is purely arbitrary, and in the highest degree rash.
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764
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