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noun

Enumeration n.

The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.

A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed. "Because almost every man we meet possesses these, we leave them out of our enumeration."

(Rhet.) A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... like the writing of a good poem—it is something like the invention of the sonnet or the Gothic arch. The poet who makes them does not merely create himself—he creates other poets. It is so in a degree long past enumeration with regard to Browning's smaller poems. Such a pious and horrible lyric as "The Heretic's Tragedy," for instance, is absolutely original, with its weird and almost blood-curdling echo ...

— Robert Browning • G. K. Chesterton

... [Footnote: 32] of proceeding relative to this stubborn spirit which prevails in your Colonies, and disturbs your government. These are—to change that spirit, as inconvenient, by removing the causes; to prosecute it as criminal; or to comply with it as necessary. I would not be guilty of an imperfect enumeration; I can think of but these three. Another has indeed been started,—that of giving up the Colonies; but it met so slight a reception that I do not think myself obliged to dwell a great while upon it. It is nothing but ...

— Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America • Edmund Burke

... as the men had. The newcomers and the men who met them walked round the yard at a measured beat, lifting one leg and throwing up one arm each time the cry of 'Wah! wah! wah!' was given, for here too the enumeration ...

— The Euahlayi Tribe - A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia • K. Langloh Parker

... affixed thereto; and when the minister read therefrom, "By his Excellency, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a Proclamation," our mirth was with difficulty repressed by admonitory glances from our sympathetic elders. Then, after a solemn enumeration of the benefits which the Commonwealth had that year received at the hands of Divine Providence, came at last the naming of the eventful day, and, at the end of all, the imposing heraldic words, "God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." And then, ...

— Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know • Various

... substance of the goods might be more significant, because a liberty assumed of trading in one species of goods, under a license to trade in another, might lead to very dangerous abuses. The license must be looked to for the enumeration of goods that are to be ...

— The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping • H. Byerley Thomson

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