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In literature, “enunciation” is often employed to signify the clear and deliberate articulation of ideas, doctrines, or speech. It appears when authors highlight the vigorous expression of moral or political principles—illustrating how carefully rendered language can imbue speech with passion and authority [1][2]—and when the focus shifts to the nuances of pronunciation that reveal character and mood [3][4]. Whether accentuating doctrines with systematic precision or critiquing the subtleties of spoken expression, the term enriches descriptions that range from the legal to the lyrical, reflecting both the art and the precision of communication [5][6].
  1. The passionate intensity of his nature has left its impress on the enunciation of his physical as well as of his moral doctrines.
    — from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar
  2. But it did so by the enunciation of principles and rules of wide and far-reaching application.
    — from Two Old FaithsEssays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans by J. Murray (John Murray) Mitchell
  3. Enunciation means the articulation of whatever you have to say distinctly and clearly.
    — from Etiquette by Emily Post
  4. He bore himself with a certain grace, complimented little children and spoke with a neat enunciation.
    — from Dubliners by James Joyce
  5. Enunciation of the law resulting from the same theoretical principles upon the decrease of temperatures in a thin bar heated at one end.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  6. The very truth--Heart's Lord!--of Sannyas, Abstention; and enunciation, Lord! Tyaga; and what separates these twain!
    — from The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata)

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