Crossword clues for pronounced
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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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.
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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.
Pronounced \Pro*nounced"\, a. [F. prononc['e].] Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided.
Note: [A Gallicism]
[His] views became every day more pronounced.
--Thackeray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"spoken," 1570s, past participle adjective from pronounce (v.). Sense of "emphatic" is a figurative meaning first attested c.1730.
Wiktionary
1 utter, articulate. 2 strongly marked. v
(en-past of: pronounce)
WordNet
adj. strongly marked; easily noticeable; "walked with a marked limp"; "a pronounced flavor of cinnamon" [syn: marked]
produced by the organs of speech
Usage examples of "pronounced".
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gordon Wright stood looking at Bernard and urging his point as he pronounced these words.
Madame Bouvier would throw one of her famous tantrums, her French accent becoming more pronounced, then probably take to her bed with a case of the vapors.
He brought me an actor, who also gave me Spanish lessons, for he pronounced the language admirably.
The same sentence they pronounced upon a pastoral letter of bishop Burnet, in which this notion of conquest had been at first asserted.
These allegations were not deemed exculpatory by the rest of the assembly, who with one voice pronounced him guilty of unwarrantable rashness and indiscretion, which, in time coming, must undoubtedly operate to the prejudice of his character and credit.
Can anyone give me a group of four homonyms, four words all pronounced alike, with spelling and meaning different in each case?
He pronounced it Car-rhi, as Mank had done, simply replacing the letter L with an R and I.