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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
propound .
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Examples
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Indeed, Austria formally threatened to withdraw her troops from the war, unless he limited his aims to the terms propounded by the allies at Châtillon.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898
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Interrogatories are questions that are what ` s called propounded or extended to an individual to answer.
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This was the idea propounded by Kuhlmann as far back as
Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various
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His famous dilemma propounded to the merchants was known as "Morton's fork."
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908
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It negates the object propounded, which is the general education of the boy on lines in which the father believes.
Liberalism 1896
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Whence comes this singular dilemma propounded to it by nature: to create something new or perish?
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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Like all great schemes, the idea propounded was fought against inch by inch, and the battle, so far as the objectors are concerned, remains a memorial of the incapacity of a great portion of mankind to think out any scheme on its merits.
A Hundred Years by Post A Jubilee Retrospect James Wilson Hyde 1879
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We are thus reduced to the dilemma propounded by Hume, between an omnipotent Deity who cannot be benevolent because misery is permitted, and a benevolent Deity with limited powers; and Mill sums up the discussion, doubtfully, in favour of a Being with great but limited powers, whose motives cannot be satisfactorily fathomed by the human intellect.
Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873
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To say truth the idea propounded by Daisy was so very novel to the doctor that it both amused and piqued him.
Melbourne House Susan Warner 1852
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The dilemma propounded by Halifax was unanswerable.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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