enunciative

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adjective

Relating to, or containing, enunciation; declarative.

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Meanings

adjectiveenunciative (not comparable)

alternative archaic enunciatiue

  1. not comparableRelating to, or containing, enunciation; declarative.

    only proceeds and obtains in respect of the dispositive Words of an Instrument , and not in regard of the enunciative Terms thereof

    1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC
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    It is important to realize that pregivenness or prefixing is a kind of anteriority that does its work in the present; subjects and meanings in part emerge in enuciative co-constitutive moments.

    2002, Thomas R. West, Signs of Struggle, page 23

Origin

From Latin enuntiativus, enunciativus.

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enunciative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enunciative

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“enunciative.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enunciative. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enunciative,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enunciative.

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