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Definition of Enunciable
1. a. Capable of being enunciated or expressed.
Definition of Enunciable
1. Adjective. (context: of words, linguistic expressions, etc.) Capable of being distinctly enunciated or pronounced in speech. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of ideas, thoughts, etc.) Capable of being expressed clearly in language. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enunciable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enunciable
Literary usage of Enunciable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1877)
"... that is, verse follows a conscious and mainly enunciable law in the juxtaposition
of syllables of different kinds (long and short in Sanscrit, Greek, ..."
2. The Musical Basis of Verse: A Scientific Study of the Principles of Poetic by Julia Parker Dabney (1901)
"... and prose is merely rhythmical; that is, verse follows a conscious and mainly
enunciable law in the juxtaposition of syllables of different kinds, ..."
3. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"... from that of onions, the flavor of sugar from that of vinegar; but by what
plurality of separate and enunciable characters is this discrimination made? ..."
4. Chapters on English Metre by Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (1886)
"... Arabic, Persian; strong and weak in Modern Greek, Italian, Spanish, German,
English), and prose follows a subjective and mainly non-enunciable feeling. ..."
5. Epistemology; Or, The Theory of Knowledge: An Introduction to General by Peter Coffey (1917)
"Now the object of the intellectual act which attains to truth, the act of judgment,
is a relation between two thought-objects, a relation that is enunciable ..."
6. A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language by George Lillie Craik (1861)
"... final e having been enunciable as a distinct syllable in Chaucer's age derived
from the occurrence of such rhymes as Ro-me and to me, ti-me and by me. ..."
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