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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.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... justice and of love. This law is evermore violated, because it is proposed to liberty, and liberty rebels: it subsists evermore, because it is the work of the Almighty. Humanity, in its strange destiny, has never ceased to outrage the rule which it acknowledges, and to pronounce upon its own acts a ceaseless condemnation. The laws which are investigated by the physical sciences are the plan of the Creator realized in nature: the law proposed to liberty is the plan of the Creator to be realized by the community ...
— The Heavenly Father - Lectures on Modern Atheism • Ernest Naville
... Bebut, who found him standing on the steps of his throne, entirely clothed in scarlet, the red turban of twelve folds around his head,—in short, in the garb assumed by the kings of Persia when preparing to pronounce the decree of death. Bebut shuddered. "It is written," said the Sehah, "that what the king wills cannot be wrong. Give me to-day the same proof of thy obedience which thou didst once before. Bebut, thou hast a son—bring me his head!" Bebut attempted ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 12, Issue 327, August 16, 1828 • Various
... magnanimity. He was prepared to do everything right and reasonable. He felt that his aunt would approve the line he purposed to take. She was practical, and he assured himself that she would not consent to pronounce the doom of ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts
... men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay, Their want of light and intellect supplied By sparks absurdity strikes out of pride: Without the means of knowing right from wrong, They always are decisive, clear, and strong; Where others toil with philosophic ...
— English Poets of the Eighteenth Century • Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum
... who had the honor of being intimate with Camille Maupin can pronounce such a verdict," replied Stidmann, "what are we ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac


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