meaning of pronounce
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.
3. To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
4. To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
5. To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
6. To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
7. Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.
8. pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work
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