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English
Etymology
Latin pronunciativus.
Adjective
pronunciative (comparative more pronunciative, superlative most pronunciative)
- Of or relating to pronunciation.
1934, Mont Follick, The Influence of English, page 118:The letter y has the same pronunciative value as i, and can always be substituted by i.
- (obsolete) Uttering confidently; dogmatical.
- 1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')
- the confident and pronunciative School of Aristotle
- Pertaining to making pronouncements; declamatory.
1844, John Bramhall, The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, John Bramhall, page 421:Such a judge is not an authoritative judge, but pronunciative only; neither can he make law, but declare it, without any negative voice.
- The mood of a verb that implies a pronouncement or assertion.
1878, L. Dahle, “Studies in the Malagasy Language”, in The Antananarvio Annual and Madagascar Magazine, page 82:It would probably be the most logical course to treat of the adjunctive genus first (as it, generally speaking, keeps closer to the root than the sejunctive one) both in its pronunciative and its imperative mood; and then deal with the sejunctive in both moods.