Enunciation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enunciation \E*nun`ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), n. [L. enuntiatio,
     -ciatio.]
     1. The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making
        known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation
        of an important truth.
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              By way of interpretation and enunciation. --Jer.
                                                    Taylor.
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     2. Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards
        fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak
        with a clear or impressive enunciation.
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     3. That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a
        proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal
        declaration; a statement.
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              Every intelligible enunciation must be either true
              or false.                             --A. Clarke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  enunciation
       n : the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view
           of its intelligibility to the audience [syn: {diction}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "enunciation":
     affirmance, affirmation, allegation, announcement, annunciation,
     articulation, assertion, asseveration, attack, averment,
     avouchment, avowal, bulletin board, circular, communique,
     conclusion, creed, declaration, delivery, dictum, edict,
     encyclical, ipse dixit, manifesto, notice, notification, phonation,
     position, position paper, positive declaration, predicate,
     predication, proclamation, profession, program, programma,
     pronouncement, pronunciamento, pronunciation, proposition, protest,
     protestation, public notice, report, say, say-so, saying, stance,
     stand, statement, ukase, utterance, vocalization, voicing, vouch,
     white book, white paper, word