propound
verb (used with object)
to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose.
propounder
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a word derived from
propound.
Example Sentences
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Though no great hand at economic analysis, Smith was a propounder of economic doctrine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Poet, psychologist, anarchist, teacher, novelist, propounder of extreme solutions to mundane problems, he could never see why conventional critics often dismissed him as a gadfly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now an argument, which imputes inconsistency and unfairness to the propounder of a prohibitory measure, is one which it would be exceedingly difficult, and perhaps impossible, satisfactorily to answer.
From The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, January, 1835 by George Wightman
The idea of mentioning the profits of these wretches as a compensating offset to the horrors of a public calamity would justly consign its propounder to the custody of a lunatic commission.
From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by Louis Philippe McCarty
If Laplace deserves credit as the creator of a Mechanique Celeste, Fourier has equal claims to gratitude as the first and only propounder of a rigidly scientific system of mental mechanics.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
