Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or mode of enunciating or pronouncing; manner of utterance: pronunciation or utterance: used especially with reference to manner.
- n. The act of announcing or stating, or that which is announced; deliberate or definite declaration; public attestation.
- n. In logic, a proposition; that which is subject to truth and falsity; a judgment set forth in words.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth.
- n. Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation.
- n. That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration.
- n. Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation.
- n. That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
Examples
“The term enunciation means the formation of words, including right vocal shape to the vowels and right form to the consonants.”
“The enunciation is very clear, so it is an easy language to understand.”
“More than this, the press of enunciation is aimed toward the very object of its own discursive gesture across the drift from the phonetically denominated "double-u" to its single and more immediately recognized graphic variant.”
“Poets who do not pass will be required to split their reading fee with a “reading out loud” specialist, professionally certified in enunciation and projection.”
notes from a poetry festival : Jeffrey McDaniel : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
“The structure of the prohibitory examples above is similar to the structure of the famous "liar's paradox," and they generally submit to the same kind of resolution that Lacan brought to the statement "I am lying": a separation of the subject of enunciation from the subject of the statement, a segregation of frames.”
“She said she had insisted on correct enunciation from the first.”
“It’s interesting how both American and British the teacher’s enunciation is compared to my experience of listening to teachers of English in South Korea who are Korean.”
New York Philharmonic in Asia: English Lessons in Pyongyang - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
“Each is like a subject of the statement endowed with a relative power, and these relative powers combine in a subject of enunciation, that is, the chess player or the game?”
“-- It must be remembered that when for the sake of exercise or effect syllables are extended in time, they must be so uttered that their identity is not impaired, -- that is, their enunciation must be free from mouthing.”
“His enunciation is a delight in its perfection, but he talks "according to the dictionary" so naturally that his correctness does not sound a bit affected.”
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