Pronounce, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pronounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Pronounging.]
Etymology: [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.
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Syn. -- To deliver; utter; speak. See Deliver.
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Pronounce, 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.
Pronounce, n.
Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. [Obs.] Milton.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for pronounce; he lists it under speak, state.
He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.