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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enounce.

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Examples

  • It is no joke, but one of the proverbial fools 'truths, which Dogberry enounces when he says that "reading and writing come by nature."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

  • In this essay he enounces a certain doctrine of poetry, and, true to his lifelong practice, he enounces it mainly by criticism of what other people had said.

    Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

  • And so Lucidity, which reveals the Truth, enounces its decisions with absolute courage; and to Lucidity and Courage is added the crowning grace of Serenity.

    Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

  • And so Lucidity, which reveals the Truth, enounces its decisions with absolute courage; and to Lucidity and Courage is added the crowning grace of Serenity.

    Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • In this essay he enounces a certain doctrine of poetry, and, true to his lifelong practice, he enounces it mainly by criticism of what other people had said.

    Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • Sûtra 20 clearly enounces the difference of the individual soul and the Lord; hence/S/a@nkara is obliged to remark that that difference is not real.

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881

  • When already over seventy years of age he enounces it again, and maintains it as firmly as ever in 1815, in his 'Histoire des Animaux sans Vertèbres,' and in 1820 in his 'Système des

    Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868

  • "Conform thyself to Nature" -- with what sincerity, what enthusiasm, what religious fervour, he enounces the precept to others, to himself!

    Giordano Bruno Walter Pater 1866

  • "Conform thyself to Nature" -- with what sincerity, what enthusiasm, what religious fervour, he enounces the precept to others, to himself!

    Giordano Bruno Walter Pater 1866

  • "Conform thyself to Nature" -- with what sincerity, what enthusiasm, what religious fervour, he enounces the precept to others, to himself!

    Giordano Bruno Walter Pater 1866

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