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enunciative

enunciative adjective: relating to, or containing, enunciation; declarative.

Adjective

enunciative (not comparable)

  1. Relating 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 thereof1726, 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...
    • 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

Forms of enunciative

alternative form (archaic)enunciatiue

Origin of enunciative

From Latin enuntiativus, enunciativus.

Questions about enunciative

What does enunciative mean?
Enunciative means relating to, or containing, enunciation; declarative.
What part of speech is enunciative?
Enunciative is an adjective.

Words near enunciative in the dictionary

  1. enunciated
  2. enunciates
  3. enunciating
  4. enunciation
  5. enunciations
  6. enunciative
  7. enunciatively
  8. enunciator
  9. enunciators
  10. enunciatory
  11. enure

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