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DECLARED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made known or openly avowed
Example:
a declared liberal
Classified under:
Similar:
alleged (declared but not proved)
announced; proclaimed (declared publicly; made widely known)
asserted (confidently declared to be so)
avowed; professed (openly declared as such)
professed (claimed with intent to deceive)
self-proclaimed (proclaimed to be or described as such by oneself, without endorsement by others)
Antonym:
undeclared (not announced or openly acknowledged)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Declared as fact; explicitly stated
Synonyms:
declared; stated
Classified under:
Similar:
explicit; expressed (precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb declare
Context examples:
Beth declared she wouldn't go to the fair at all, and Jo demanded why she didn't take all her pretty things and leave those mean people to get on without her.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"An if I get a chance at it, that wolf that's a dog'll be jes' meat," Bill declared.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
M. Caffyn, of 33, East Elliot Place—who came immediately after me, declared, after making examination, that the man must have been dead for quite two days.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I remembered that Challenger had declared that man could not exist upon the plateau, since with his feeble weapons he could not hold his own against the monsters who roamed over it.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On a beautiful fall day, a day of similar Indian summer to that which had seen their love declared the year before, Martin read his "Love-cycle" to Ruth.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
She would not, she declared, lose money that belonged to her fatherless boy; If none of the rest of you dare, she said, Jim and I dare.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
In spite of what her sister declared, and really believed to be her feelings in the expectation of his arrival, Elizabeth could easily perceive that her spirits were affected by it.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
In this round and the two which followed he showed a swiftness and accuracy which old ringsiders declared that Mendoza in his prime had never surpassed.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
