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verb

Declare v. t. (past & past part. declared; pres. part. declaring)

1.

To make clear; to free from obscurity. (Obs.) "To declare this a little."

2.

To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce. "This day I have begot whom I declare My only Son." "The heavens declare the glory of God."

3.

To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false. "I the Lord... declare things that are right."

4.

(Com.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.

To declare off, to recede from an agreement, undertaking, contract, etc.; to renounce.

To declare one's self, to avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.

Declare v. i.

1.

To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies. "Like fawning courtiers, for success they wait, And then come smiling, and declare for fate."

2.

(Law) To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.

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Etymology of 'Declare'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Declare" Quotes from Famous Books

... "I declare to God, sir, I don't know what he has took, for me eyes can't be everywhere, but I do know he's took ...

— The Ghost Girl • H. De Vere Stacpoole

... "Not a shadow of doubt of any sort, I declare and protest. No, no; it's entirely my own idiotic excitability. I can't account for it. Just don't notice ...

— Will Warburton • George Gissing

... and they, if they bear their misfortunes bravely, will be truly deemed brave fathers of the brave. But if they give way to their sorrows, either they will be suspected of not being our parents, or we of not being such as our panegyrists declare. Let not either of the two alternatives happen, but rather let them be our chief and true panegyrists, who show in their lives that they are true men, and had men for their sons. Of old the saying, "Nothing too much," appeared to be, ...

— Menexenus • Plato

... wife;' she says, though 'the women still will pet him, their husbands are down upon him;' she further says, 'Clayton says he has no right to run loose with a hidden wife somewhere;' she says it has been in two or three papers. I declare, Vaura, if it were not for the feeling I have that we shall be a comfort to your uncle, I do not care ...

— A Heart-Song of To-day • Annie Gregg Savigny

... free from the arena henceforth. It is their custom when a gladiator greatly distinguishes himself to declare him free, though I have never known one before freed on his first appearance. The rule is that a gladiator remains for two years in the ring, but that period is shortened should the people deem ...

— Beric the Briton - A Story of the Roman Invasion • G. A. Henty

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