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What does "pronounce" mean?

Pronounce: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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.
  2. 3.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. See Deliver.
  3. 4.To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly. Earle.
  4. 5.To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence. [R.] Dr. H. More.
  5. 6.Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. [Obs.] Milton.

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