Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Declaring something as true; declarative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation; declarative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to, or containing,
enunciation ;declarative .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word enunciative.
Examples
-
Taken verbally as well as ontologically, then, and directed back into romanticism, Agamben would thus help rethink Wordsworthian imminence as a kind of immanence in its own enunciative right.
-
I await your enunciative opinions in hopes it can settle a mushrooming family feud.
-
I await your enunciative opinions in hopes it can settle a mushrooming family feud.
-
New technologies influence writing, triggering a redefinition of the relationship between writer-text-reader-critic and giving birth to a new contemporary fictional model, characterized by fragment organization, character crisis, dramatization of the epic and the lyric text, narrative crisis, a mixture of various aspects of language, exploration of diverse enunciative spaces.
Theatricality of Sound in Hypertext Writing in Romanian Literature 2008
-
“David,” she said, with a little too much enunciative precision.
Thin Air Rachel Caine 2007
-
He has fourteen moods; his _interrogative, optative, hortative, promissive, precautive, requisitive, enunciative_, &c. But as far as philosophical accuracy and the convenience and advantage of the learner are concerned, it is believed that no arrangement is preferable to the following.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
-
It was _ours_ once to be of a class whose enunciative powers were disciplined by repeated goings 'through' of the 'Old English Reader, 'and well do we remember how the accidental omission of the full pause after' shows 'in the quotation ending the piece entitled' Excellency of the Holy
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various
-
Manners 'distinction of manner, his wellbred, easy ways, his charmingly enunciative and gracious voice, together with his naive and simple nature, went far with people's hearts.
Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914
-
He follows Origen in choosing for the enunciative form of exegesis the shortest possible marginal gloss (paratheseis).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
-
Narrative judgments, not less than those termed non-enunciative by Aristotle, such as the expression of desires, are not properly logical judgments.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.