PROPOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does propound mean? 

• PROPOUND (verb)
  The verb PROPOUND has 1 sense:

1. put forward, as of an idea

  Familiarity information: PROPOUND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPOUND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they propound    ... he / she / it propounds   
Past simple: propounded   
Past participle: propounded   
-ing form: propounding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put forward, as of an idea

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "propound" is one way to...):

advise; counsel; rede (give advice to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

 Context examples 

That's the question I've been propounding to myself for many a day—not concerning you merely, but concerning everybody.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Big John scratched his red head and grinned in high delight when the question was propounded to him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The delight with which Traddles propounded this plan to me, and the sense he had of its uncommon artfulness, are among the freshest things in my remembrance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Again Mr. Rochester propounded his query: Is the wandering and sinful, but now rest-seeking and repentant, man justified in daring the world's opinion, in order to attach to him for ever this gentle, gracious, genial stranger, thereby securing his own peace of mind and regeneration of life?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Martin had a question of his own to propound to her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was about to propound a question, touching the manner in which that operation of changing my heart was to be performed, when Mrs. Reed interposed, telling me to sit down; she then proceeded to carry on the conversation herself.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And to add confusion to confusion, there was the servant, an unceasing menace, that appeared noiselessly at his shoulder, a dire Sphinx that propounded puzzles and conundrums demanding instantaneous solution.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)