Verb

(pronounc)

To formally declare, officially or ceremoniously.

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, 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

To clear from an accusation, suspicion or criticism.

to vindicate someone's honor

To justify by providing evidence.

to vindicate a right, claim or title

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, year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Ukrainians immediately demanded a goal and their claims were vindicated as replays showed the ball crossed the line before Terry's intervention.}}

To maintain or defend a cause against opposition.

to vindicate the rights of labor movement in developing countries

To provide justification for.

The violent history of the suspect vindicated the use of force by the police.

To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.

(obsolete) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.

(obsolete) To avenge; to punish

A war to vindicate infidelity.