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Quotation dates: 1400-1667
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Pronunciacio(u)n(e, -iatio(u)n(e, Pronuntiatio(u)n(e, n. Also: pronuns-, pronounc- and -iacone, -eatioun, -ieatione, -acion. [Late ME and e.m.E. pronunciacioun (Lydgate), -ion, pronunciation (1530), -syation (1555), L. prōnuntiātiōn-, f. prōnuntiāre Pronunc(e v.1 See also Pronuntioun n.]
1. A formal declaration or utterance; esp., the official announcement of the sentence or decree of a court by one authorized to deliver it.(1) 14.. Regiam Majestatem c. 39.
Gif it betyde nocht al thre the arbitouris to concorde in the pronunciacone of the dome the sentence … of twa sulde … be of vale 1476 Acts Lords Auditors 56/2.
Pronunciacione 1490 Acts Lords of Council I 139/2.
Efter the geving and pronunciacioune of the decrett and sentence of the said five personis 1532 Instit. Ct. Sess. in Facs. Nat. MSS III xx.
That all aduocatis … remane quhen the parteis ar remouit and than to entre agane at the gevin and pronunciatioun of interlocutouris quhen the parteis enteris 1538 (c 1580) Edinb. B. Rec. II 87.
[The baillies, etc.] disassentis to the pronunciatioun of the forme and minute of act maid in fauouris of Walter Scott … becaus … Williame Sym baillie … declaret at the making thairof he disassentit to the geving furth or pronunciatioun thairof vnto the tyme the counsale had … decernit thairvpoun 1561–2 Reg. Privy C. I 197 (see Pronuncear n.) 1563 Melville Chart. 102.
The tyme of the leding and pronounciatioun of the pretendit dome of forfaltour 1565 Edinb. Univ. MS La. iii 388 a fol. 4 a.
That the lordis and scrybis being present for the tyme keip the samyn secrete but revelatioun … vnto the tyme of the pronunciatioun of the same iudicialiter 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. ii 122 b. 1624 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV 249.
Pronuntiatioune 1651 Dunkeld Presb. II 495.
Pronuncieatione(2) 1535 Dunferm. Reg. Ct. 123.
At the … finell pronunciatione arbitrale of Jhone Flemeyne [etc.] … arbitrares 1549 Aberd. B. Rec. I 270.
Conuikit in iugment be the sorne assise … be the pronunciation of … thair chancelar 1563 St. A. Kirk S. 155.
Pronunsacion(3) 1566 St. A. Kirk S. 278.
To geve hyr ayth of calumpne befoir pronunciacion 1576 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. I 11.
The said persewar desyrand pronunceatioun and proces
b. The action of pronouncing, in sense 1 c of Pronunc(e v.1; promulgation. —1540 Acts II 356/2 (see Pronunc(e v.1 1 c).
2. The uttering of a word or words; the mode in which a word is pronounced or articulated. b. ? Action of speaking; speech; delivery. (But perh. merely a further example of the above.) 1531 Bell. Boece I lix.
Thay that spekis with the auld toung of that cuntre, hes thair asperatioun, thair diptongis and thair pronunciation, better than ony othir pepill c1646 Craufurd Edinb. Univ. fol. 38.
I follow his pronunciation both of the Latine and Greek 1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 123.
As to ther pronuntiation of the Greek I could never keip myselfe from laughting when they had occasion to read Greekb. 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 8.
That the bairnis may easely writ eftyr his pronunciation
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