pronounce

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1. pronounce - Noun

2. pronounce - Verb

Meaning

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.

To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.

To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.

To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.

To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.

To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.

Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.

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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. George Santayana

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. Vivien Leigh

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. Mark Twain

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel. Charles Hodge

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. William Cowper

One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No. Plutarch

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