Literary notes about enounce (AI summary)
The term “enounce” is employed in literature to indicate the clear and deliberate expression of ideas, ranging from the articulation of formal principles to the dramatic delivery of personal assertions. It is often used when a text emphasizes the importance of stating the truth or a foundational concept with precision, as when a political mechanism fails to properly enounce the public will [1] or when a figure is compelled to enounce a profound truth [2]. The word also appears in contexts involving theological or philosophical discourse, where doctrines or judgments are stated unequivocally [3][4][5], and in narratives where characters carefully choose their words for effect [6][7]. In all these uses, "enounce" conveys the act of declaring or stating something with a notable clarity and firmness.
- The contrivance in the Constitution for marking the votes works badly, because it does not enounce precisely the true expression of the public will.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson - Here we feel driven defiantly to enounce the truth: that the highest art, even in a narrow sense, comes only with a true poetic message.
— from Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. (Philip Henry) Goepp - Cornelius Fronto too could enounce that theory of the reasonable community between men and God, in many different ways.
— from Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Walter Pater - Suffice it to have proved that both Old and New Testament enounce the judgment.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - This, then, being the law of human life, Christ, being man, must not only enounce but observe it.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods - "What name shall I enounce?" says he, with a wink at Gregory on the stair.
— from The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh by William Makepeace Thackeray - he said, in the tone one might fancy a speaking automaton to enounce its single words; “Mason!—the West Indies!”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë
