Verb

(pronounc)

To formally declare, officially or ceremoniously.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced . The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}

To pass judgment.

To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate.

* 1869 , (Mark Twain), The Innocents Abroad , page 182:

They spell it "Vinci" and pronounce' it "Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they ' pronounce .

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To produce the components of speech.

To declare authoritatively, or as a formal expert opinion.

To read aloud.

Verb

(en verb)

To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

(Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).

* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 35:

Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.

To assure the accuracy of previous statements.