Pro*nounce" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pronounced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pronouncing (?).] [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.
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Pro*nounce", v. i.
1.
To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
Earle.
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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