From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pronounce \Pro*nounce"\, n.
Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. [Obs.] --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pronounce \Pro*nounce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pronounced; p.
pr. & vb. n. Pronounging.] [F. prononcer, L. pronunciare;
pro before, forth + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce. See
Announce.]
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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.
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2. To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree
or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
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Sternly he pronounced
The rigid interdiction. --Milton.
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3. To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as,
to pronounce an oration.
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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to
you. --Shak.
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4. To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a
libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
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The God who hallowed thee and blessed,
Pronouncing thee all good. --Keble.
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Syn: To deliver; utter; speak. See Deliver.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pronounce \Pro*nounce"\, v. i.
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1. To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce
faultlessly. --Earle.
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2. To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with
confidence. [R.] --Dr. H. More.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pronounce
v 1: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She
pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip
wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?"
[syn: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out,
enunciate, say]
2: pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"
[syn: pronounce, label, judge]