propound
verb (used with object)
to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose.
has propounded
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present perfectof propound (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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To help them, he has propounded four ground rules which might well serve as a simple syllabus of pentecostal understanding in a Tower-of-Babel era.
From Time Magazine Archive
He, too, has propounded that problem,—he has translated into the modern speech, that problem, which the inspired Leader of men, of old propounded.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon
He was like a child who has propounded a riddle that has been too readily guessed.
From The Desert Valley by Jackson Gregory
Miss Lucretia Mott has propounded the principles of the party.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In order to get out of this labyrinth, Manning has propounded a simpler theory.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
