Word of the Day: Enunciate
enunciate
e-nun-ci-ate / əˈnənsēˌāt
verb
1. to pronounce words carefully and distinctly
You can’t properly enunciate the phrase Yes! Without showing a smile!
“The Simplest Ways to Happiness – Say Yes!”, www.mychallengetribe.com/Challenge-839341-the-simplest-ways-to-happiness-say-yes“, accessed April 1, 2022
2. to announce publicly
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910
3. to state definitively
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary.
From “A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present” by Howard Zinn, 1922 – 2010
