HOW TO PRONOUNCE
enunciate
/ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/
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What does enunciate mean?
verb
- To make a definite or systematic statement of.
- To announce, proclaim.
- To articulate, pronounce.
More meanings (1)
verb
- To make sounds clearly.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/
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Truth, thus held, is but one superstition the more, accidentally clinging to the words which enunciate a truth.
Very slowly and deliberately they enunciate each word and syllable with long-drawn emphasis, punctuating their sentences with pauses, some short and some long.
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Nothing can be more delightfully ludicrous, than the important and emphatical air with which the herd of mankind enunciate the most trifling observations.
With features strained hard to enunciate the syllables they continued to regard the centre of the flickering fire, the notes of the youngest straying over into the pauses of the rest.
He spoke simply, and utterly without emotion; with the manner of a teacher setting forth to a group of scholars an axiom in geometry, he would enunciate such propositions as made the hair of an ordinary person rise on end.