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[1 It sounds like the tolling of funeral bells, as the annunciation is made of one death after another amongst those who supported our canopy of empire through the last most memorable generation.

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  1. noun The act of announcing.
  2. noun An announcement; a proclamation.
  3. noun Christianity The angel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin Mary of the Incarnation.
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  • As soon as Burr had joined the family of the general, he entered upon the duties of an aid; but no formal annunciation was made until the army arrived before Quebec, when his appointment was announced in general orders. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
  • She knew that the Virgin in any annunciation is without a doubt about to become a mother. —  Audrey Hepburn
  • Say to Charles that I was sorry not to have seen him; but if persons of consequence will travel without previous annunciation, they may chance to find even the humblest of their servants not at home. —  Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis
  • He strengthens his voice by making the short hours of the night-clad street alive with the agreeable annunciation, especially to nervous invalids and sick children, that he "will not go home till morning." —  The Swamp Doctor's Adventures
  • The categorical imperative, or the annunciation of the new Teutonic God, EGoENKAIPAN: a dithyrambic Ode present subject. —  Biographia Literaria
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  1. from Middle English annunciacion, -cioun, annoncyacyon, from Old French annonciation, from Latin annunciatio(n-), properly annuntiatio(n-), adnuntiatio(n-), from annuntiare, announce: see annunciate, announce.
 

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/ænənsɪˈeɪʃən/
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