pronuntiation

English

Etymology

From Latin prōnūntiātiō.

Noun

pronuntiation (countable and uncountable, plural pronuntiations)

1. Obsolete form of pronunciation.
   • 1617, Robert Robinson, “A Preface declaring the great benefit of Speech and writing, and the order of this Treatise”, in The Art of Pronuntiation, Digested into Two Parts. Vox Audienda, & Vox Videnda. […], London: […] Nicholas Okes:

     […] I cannot ſee (eſpecially conſidering how neceſſary a thing true pronuntiation is both for the grace of the ſpeech, as for the commodity and aduantage it may beget to the common-wealth as well at home, as in commerce and traffique had in forraine parts with other nations by conferring with them in their own languages) how in this it can be accounted vnneceſſary to ſeeke a meanes whereby to remedy theſe manifold abuſes and imperfections in ſpeech and writing, […]

   • 1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “A large Treatise of King SALOMONS Nauie sent from Eziongeber to Ophir: […]”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 1st part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, § VII ([…]), page 22, lines 8–10:

     Now Eloth being written in the holy tongue אלות and אילת was by tranſmigration ſhifted and remoued to diuers pronuntiations, a thing vſuall in Ebrew names, both of places and perſons.

   • 1751, Charles Bertram, Ethics from Séveral Authors, the Words Accented to Rénder the English Pronuntiation Éasy to Fóreigners, Copenhagen: […] [F]or the Author, […], by L. H. Lillie, title page:

     ETHICS from Séveral Authors, the words accented to rénder the ENGLISH PRONUNTIATION éaſy to Fóreigners.