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Definition of Pronounces
1. pronounce [v] - See also: pronounce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pronounces
Literary usage of Pronounces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"Tern- professes not to understand it, and pronounces it to be §^'"^5,'^ like a
riddle.1 Every tradesman or artisan does the own imsi- business of others as ..."
2. The Orthoëpist: A Pronouncing Manual Containing about Four Thousand Five by Alfred Ayres (1894)
"because the s, which is akin to the aspiration, immediately precedes. Mr.
Sheridan pronounces the first syllable of ophthalmic like off, but the first of ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... and hints that it may be his last, Gifford rightly pronounces the comic portions
of ' The Lovers Melancholy ' to be despicable ; but it contains some ..."
4. The Monistby Hegeler Institute, Edward C. Hegeler by Hegeler Institute, Edward C. Hegeler (1905)
"The Arabs she pronounces "the best behaved and most forbearing people in the
world," and not unlike "the best type oí our New Englanders. ..."
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