What is "pronounging"

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.]

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.
   --Milton.

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.
   --Shak.

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.
   --Keble.

   Syn: To deliver; utter; speak. See Deliver.