DECLAIMING Synonyms

• the act of giving special importance or significance to something

• an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)

• a moralistic rebuke

• capable of or involving speech or speaking

• the utterance of intelligible speech

• delivering an address to a public audience

• capable of speech

• propelled violently in a usually narrow stream

• the act of singing vocal music

• establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

• to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

• say yes to

• make known; make an announcement

• announce publicly or officially

• give the names of

• foreshadow or presage

• state emphatically and authoritatively

• announce publicly or officially

• state firmly

• declare to be

• authorize payments of

• designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand

• make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official

• proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against

• reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion

• the government of the Roman Catholic Church

• administer a pontifical office

• talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner

• declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles

• state or announce

• affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of

• praise, glorify, or honor

• speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way

• pronounce judgment on

• the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

• the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

• the way something is with respect to its main attributes

• the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state

• a politically organized body of people under a single government

• (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

• a state of depression or agitation

• the territory occupied by a nation

• express in words

• put before

• indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.

• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

• complete and absolute

• articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise

• express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)

• express in speech

• put into circulation

• complain bitterly

• speak against in an impassioned manner

• recite in elocution

• repeat aloud from memory

• render verbally

• narrate or give a detailed account of

• specify individually