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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Enunciation \E*nun'ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), noun [L. enuntiatio, -ciatio.]
1. 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. --Jer. Taylor.
2. Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation.
3. 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. --A. Clarke.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
enunciation
noun: 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
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