enounce

From French énoncer, from Latin ēnuntiō.

• Rhymes: -aʊns
• IPA^(key): /ɪˈnaʊns/, /iˈnaʊns/

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enounce (third-person singular simple present enounces, present participle enouncing, simple past and past participle enounced)

1. To say or pronounce; to enunciate.
2. To declare or proclaim.
   • c. 1858, William Hamilton, Lectures on Logic:

     A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual.

3. To state unequivocally.