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Definition of Propounding
1. propound [v] - See also: propound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Propounding
Literary usage of Propounding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1906)
"The document is the formal propounding to the Governor and Council and to the
Overseers of the College of a candidate, by Richard Saltonstall,8 one of the ..."
2. The History of Maryland: From Its First Settlement, in 1633, to the by John Leeds Bozman (1837)
"... with a commission for propounding them to the assembly—New conditions of
plantation—Quarrel between governor Greene and the commander of the isle of ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1879)
""Sir, the very propounding of such a ques- •i-ii is astonishing, and exhibits at
least a doubt in the minds of its proponents of the propriety uxj justice ..."
4. Logic by Immanuel Kant (1819)
"—propounding.—Use of this Science.—Sketch of a History of it. LOGIC is divided, *'
i \, into the analytic and the dialectic. The analytic, by dissecting, ..."
5. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1892)
"... takes for granted, and not as one propounding anything new.1 Does not this
bring us back very near the foundation-head of all Christian doctrine ? ..."
6. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Léopold Delisle, Guizot (François) (1854)
"... who went to and fro propounding the treacherous terms that the earl should
surrender himself to the king, and the king restore him to his favour as a ..."
7. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year (1850)
"... and enters into a comprehensive Review of the British Colonial System,
propounding his own Views as to the Changes required—He is answered by Mr. Hawes, ..."
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