Crossword clues for pronounce
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pronounce \Pro*nounce"\, v. i.
To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
--Earle.To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence. [R.]
--Dr. H. More.
Pronounce \Pro*nounce"\, n.
Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. [Obs.]
--Milton.
Pronounce \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.]
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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To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
Sternly he pronounced The rigid interdiction.
--Milton. -
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.
--Shak. -
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.
--Keble.Syn: To deliver; utter; speak. See Deliver.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "to declare officially;" late 14c., "to speak, utter," from Old French prononcier "declare, speak out, pronounce" (late 13c., Modern French prononcer), from Late Latin pronunciare, from Latin pronuntiare "to proclaim, announce; pronounce, utter," from pro- "forth, out, in public" (see pro-) + nuntiare "announce," from nuntius "messenger" (see nuncio). With reference to the mode of sounding words or languages, it is attested from 1620s (but see pronunciation in this sense from early 15c.). Related: Pronounced; pronouncing.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To formally declare, officially or ceremoniously.
WordNet
v. speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say]
pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here" [syn: label, judge]
Usage examples of "pronounce".
Greatness therefore summon Tanca to your judgment-seat, and, after hearing all parties, pronounce a just judgment and one accordant to your character.
The Christians sometimes supplied by their voluntary declaration the want of an accuser, rudely disturbed the public service of paganism, and rushing in crowds round the tribunal of the magistrates, called upon them to pronounce and to inflict the sentence of the law.
The danger of frequent perjury might justify the pronouncing against a false accuser the same penalty which his evidence would have inflicted: the disorders of the times might compel the legislator to punish every homicide with death, and every injury with equal retaliation.
All this is left out of his history, and in nowise alluded to by him, so far as I can remember, save once, when he makes a remark, that upon his principle the Supreme Court were authorized to pronounce a decision that the act called the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
Leah dined on pasta Amatriciana, which she pronounced delicious and wondered aloud why her father told her she would never again eat good pasta until they returned to Rome.
Macdonald then presented to him a letter from General Beurnonville, announcing the forfeiture of the Emperor pronounced by the Senate, and the determination of the Allied powers not to treat with Napoleon, or any member of his family.
Haight, whose name is pronounced Hate, just took the antonym of his name.
I pronounce thee twice-damned, heretic and apostate, and condemn thy disbelief to the Fire of Hell!
In the East, where the thought of the apostolical succession of the bishops never received such pronounced expression as in Rome it was just this latter element that was almost exclusively emphasised from the end of the 3rd century.
The sacred screen now before me mounts its head into the dome, and presents an imposing and even an architectonic aspect, but certain details, such as classic mouldings of columns, and a broken entablature, pronounce the edifice to be comparatively modern.
On the 6th of September he said he had before stated in the hand-bill that he held an assignment dated May 20th, 1828, which in reply I pronounced to be false, and referred to the hand-bill for the truth of what I said.
This, together with the heavy swell and the pronounced fall of the barometer, showed that something might be expected.
The names of Bastide, of Castaing, of Papavoine, had hardly been pronounced before they completely absorbed all the public attention, and this had to be satisfied, light had to be thrown on the darkness: society demanded vengeance.
He thanked de Batz warmly, and during the last half-hour, while the misanthropical lover spurned repentant Celimene, he was conscious of a curious sensation of impatience, a tingling of his nerves, a wild, mad longing to hear those full moist lips pronounce his name, and have those large brown eyes throw their half-veiled look into his own.
Many would have concurred in judgment with Madame de Stael, when she pronounced Miss Benger the most interesting woman she had seen during her visit to England.