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Meanings of annunciation in English

Portuguese
anunciação

A festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland.

        anunciação
        Portuguese
        pregão
        Catalan
        pregó
        Spanish
        proclamación

        A formal public statement.

              pregão
              Usage of annunciation in English
              1
              Both virtues stand forth most brilliantly in the annunciation of the angel.
              The Excellence of the Rosary / Conferences for Devotions in Hono...
              2
              I have heard the annunciation of whatever finer things are to come.
              The Inferno
              3
              The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25.
              The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section I, J, K, ...
              4
              But after a few moments they had adjusted themselves to this lofty annunciation.
              The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields
              5
              It seems that there is to be no annunciation for me at all.
              The red queen
              6
              Another silence succeeded this annunciation of the character Duncan had assumed.
              The Last of the Mohicans
              7
              The mere annunciation of a new plan awakens universal attention.
              The Teacher / Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and G...
              8
              The controversy surrounding the annunciation was once a debate that occupied theoretical angelologists for centuries.
              Angelopolis
              9
              I was shown the "place of annunciation" in the Latin monastery.
              A Trip Abroad / An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan an...
              10
              In a few moments, Messrs. Gallatin, Clay, Carroll and Hughes entered, and confirmed the annunciation.
              Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams / Sixth President ...
              11
              This annunciation excited great commotion among the different sectaries.
              The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna
              12
              There was a murmur among them at this annunciation.
              The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4
              13
              And this moral is made the more prominent and memorable by the grandeur of its annunciation.
              Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
              14
              Accordingly, this alarming annunciation was received, as Magua intended, with manifest disapprobation, if not with alarm.
              The Last of the Mohicans
              15
              I had drawn her apart from the company, expecting she would be agitated by the annunciation.
              Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author
              16
              The narrative, in fact, proceeds in all respects as if the annunciation formed no part of it.
              On the Prospects of Christianity / Bernard Shaw's Preface to And...
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