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Enunciation n.

The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth. "By way of interpretation and enunciation."

Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation.

That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement. "Every intelligible enunciation must be either true or false."

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"Enunciation" Quotes from Famous Books

... lecture was announced for eight, but rarely began before half-past The present being an occasion of exceptional interest, twenty minutes past the hour saw the chairman rise for his prefatory remarks. He was a lank man of jovial countenance and jerky enunciation. There was no need, he observed, to introduce a friend and comrade so well known to them as the lecturer of the evening. 'We're always glad to hear him, and to-night, if I may be allowed to 'int as much, we're particularly glad to hear him. Our friend and comrade is going to talk to us ...

— Demos • George Gissing

... scope of zoology. But if I were to content myself with the enunciation of these dry definitions, I should ill exemplify that method of teaching this branch of physical science, which it is my chief business to-night to recommend. Let us turn away then from abstract definitions. Let us take ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... is. But the Chief Secretary for Ireland has science in the blood; and has the advantage of a natural, as well as a highly cultivated, aptitude for the use of methods of precision in investigation, and for the exact enunciation of ...

— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley

... spoken in the pure French of the Touraine country, which is said to be the best in France, free from Parisianisms, it would not have surprised me. But he spoke English, with the halting though clear enunciation ...

— The Blue Man - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... the room, dropped one hip lower than the other, placed her hand upon it and said, with a good deal of enunciation: ...

— The Beauty and the Bolshevist • Alice Duer Miller

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