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verb

Pronounce v. t. (past & past part. pronounced; pres. part. pronounging)

1.

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.

2.

To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death. "Sternly he pronounced The rigid interdiction."

3.

To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration. "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you."

4.

To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud. "The God who hallowed thee and blessed, Pronouncing thee all good."

Synonyms: To deliver; utter; speak. See Deliver.

Pronounce v. i.

1.

To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.

2.

To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence. (R.)

noun

Pronounce n. Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Pronounce'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pronounce" Quotes from Famous Books

... History of the Reformation in France," confessed poor Cecily, "by a man named D-a-u-b-i-g-n-y. I can't pronounce it. I heard Mr. Marwood saying it was a book everyone ought to read, so I began it last Sunday. I brought it along today to read when I got tired picking flowers. I'd ever so much rather have brought Ester Reid. There's so much in the ...

— The Golden Road • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... woman is a Bengali. Kapi is a name of Vish[n.]u, possibly it might be the Ramayana as treating of monkeys, but I really do not know. I see Monier Williams says that there are certain demons called kapa. But of course kopa is anger. I suppose you know that the natives of Bengal pronounce the short a as o in the English word hop." Muniya pronounces kop like the English word cope. This Shastra seems as hopelessly mythical as ...

— Indian Fairy Tales • Anonymous

... and golden mountains, and even of Asia's wildernesses, are in the names of many who enter those doors; the memories of other languages are in the muscles of their tongues or the formation of their organs of speech. Like the ancient Ephraimites at the fords of Jordan, they cannot "frame to pronounce" certain words. And memories of persecution or of vassalage are in the physical and mental attitudes of some. But they are all reborn of a genealogy impersonal but loftier in its gifts than any mere personal heritage—a genealogy which, like that of the children of Deucalion, ...

— The French in the Heart of America • John Finley

... Adams have consented together in holy wedlock, and have witnessed the same before God and this company, and thereto have given and pledged their troth, each to the other, and have declared the same by giving and receiving a Ring, and by joining hands; I pronounce that they are Man and Wife, In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of ...

— The Foolish Virgin • Thomas Dixon

... could by possibility have produced so much advantage, or tended so much to fulfill the design in view. Previous to being enlightened by such an enlarged view of the whole facts, it would thus be a rash and unphilosophical thing in the reasoner whose existence we are supposing to pronounce an unfavorable opinion. Still more unwise would it be if numerous other observations had evinced traces of skill and goodness in the fish's structure. The true and the safe conclusion would be to suspend an opinion which ...

— The Fallen Star; and, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil • E. L. Bulwer; and, Lord Brougham

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