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
Count Strzelecki has propounded a curious notion of the laws of extinction, in reference to this race.
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West
Mr. Geddes has propounded a new theory of the origin of species, which in his judgement supersedes to a large extent the theory of natural selection.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
But, upon this particular question, Mr. Swinburne has propounded a conclusion against which, we submit, Mr. Arnold contends in vain.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin
Mr. Shaw Caldecott has propounded the theory that this site is Samuel's Ramah, and that the vast ruins of a stone-walled enclosure here represent the enclosure within which Samuel's altar stood.
From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Israel Abrahams
