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Pronounce   /prənˈaʊns/   Listen
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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"Pronounce" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tam will pronounce my epitaph," said Blackie to Bolt, the observer; "he doesn't know how to ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace
... advantage the Phaeacian had: Arete and Nausicaa did not go to the market-place, where this song was sung, only men were there, but the print will enter the household where are wife and daughter. At any rate, we have to pronounce the song of Demodocus typical, universal, nay, ethical in spite of its light-hearted raillery, inasmuch as the deed is regarded as a breach of divine law, is exposed and punished, and the recompense for the release ...
— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider
... instilled into his relatives that it is a good thing for the salvation of the dead man to place a printed paper of prayers in his hands; it is a good thing further to read aloud a certain book over the dead body, and to pronounce the dead man's name in church at a certain time. All this is regarded as faith ...
— The Kingdom of God is within you • Leo Tolstoy
... says she's sure to have rheumatic fever, if she don't have noo-monia!" answered Phebe, careful to pronounce the word ...
— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott
... not considered, that every other nation, to which we can possibly gain access, or from whom we have any history derived, appears to have expressed foreign terms differently from the natives, in whose language they were found. And without a miracle the Hebrews must have done the same. We pronounce all French names differently from the people of that country: and they do the same in respect to us. What we call London, they express Londres: England they style Angleterre. What some call Bazil, they pronounce ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant


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