PRONOUNCEDLY

Etymology

Adverb

pronouncedly (comparative more pronouncedly, superlative most pronouncedly)

In a pronounced manner; markedly, distinctively. [from 18th c.]

Source: Wiktionary


PRONOUNCED

Pro*nounced", a. Etym: [F. prononcé.]

Definition: Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided.

Note: [A Gallicism] [His] views became every day more pronounced. Thackeray.

PRONOUNCE

Pro*nounce", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pronounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Pronounging.] Etym: [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.

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.

Pro*nounce", n.

Definition: Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. [Obs.] Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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