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   Pronounce , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pronounced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pronounging .] [F. prononcer, L. pronunciare; pro before, forth + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce. See Announce.]
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   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.
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   Sternly he pronounced
   The rigid interdiction.
   Milton.
   
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   To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
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   Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you.
   Shak.
   
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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.
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   The God who hallowed thee and blessed,
   Pronouncing thee all good.
   Keble.
   
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   Syn. -- To deliver; utter; speak. See Deliver.
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   Pronounce, v. i.
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   To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
   Earle.
   
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   To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence. [R.]
   Dr. H. More.
   
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   Pronounce, n. Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. [Obs.]
   Milton.
   
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