Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making known: giving public notice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In the nature of an
announcement
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to the act of announcing or being announced
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Examples
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In his paintings, the sunflowers, the workers 'worn shoes, the famous chair (Vincent's Chair with His Pipe, 1888) seem indeed to have arrived from another world, as freshly and startlingly there as the annunciatory angel, full of their news.
Determined Spirit Updike, John 2005
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The subjective urgency that Van Gogh's objective studies often projected, as of annunciatory apparitions, now melts the boundary between seer and seen, sight and psyche.
Determined Spirit Updike, John 2005
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Otherwise, had I gone abroad in the robes of the Tatrix, we would have been encumbered by guards and crowds; we would have had to travel in a palanquin; we would have been forced to tolerate the annunciatory drums and trumpets, and put up with all the noisy, ostentatious, dreary panoply of office.
Kajira Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1983
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The voice of the trumpets was not musical but annunciatory.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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These had an annunciatory effect, and harked back to the heroic era of Romantic piano music, for which Southam retained affection even after she became a committed serialist.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN 2011
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These had an annunciatory effect, and harked back to the heroic era of Romantic piano music, for which Southam retained affection even after she became a committed serialist.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN 2011
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The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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n. announcement of the Incarnation to Mary, mother of Jesus; feast celebrated on Lady Day (March 25); Annunciation lily, madonna lily. annunciative, annunciatory, anobiid
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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