Verb

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(announce)

Verb

(announc)

(label) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

* (convert into real quote) (1724-1804)

Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}

(label) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

* (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)

Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.

Verb

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(denounce)

Verb

(denounc)

(obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.

*, II.35:

Nero .

*

To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.

to denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward

* 2013 May 23, (Sarah Lyall), " British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):

Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.

To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.

to denounce a confederate in crime

to denounce someone to the authorities

(obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.

to denounce''' war; to '''denounce punishment

To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.