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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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