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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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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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Pro*nounce", n. Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. [Obs.] Milton.
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