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
It is believed that he was the first propounder of the theory which supposes all plant and animal forms to be the result, not of special creation, but of slow modification in pre-existent organisms.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
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
The propounder of the dilemma covertly assumes this.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
