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pronunciative (comparative more pronunciative, superlative most pronunciative)

  1. Of or relating to pronunciation.
  2. (obsolete) Uttering confidently; dogmatical.
    • 1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')
      the confident and pronunciative School of Aristotle

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pronunciative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)