0 past simple and past participle of propound
1 to suggest a theory, belief, or opinion for other people to consider:
From the questions propounded by visitors one is convinced that too little is known of this branch of government service.
They were far from being perfect embodiments of the norms they propounded.
He had his own philosophy of life and social order, and propounded, promoted and defended the ideology of this dispensation.
More modern functionalist theories include those propounded by many contemporar y theorists of deliberative democracy.
Inevitably pragmatism, historic licence and personal preference worked their way into the theories propounded about the racial or national hierarchies.
Nevertheless, the leftist case suffered from a technical flaw which never crossed the minds of those who propounded it.
The human perceptual system has a ' natural ' propensity to dichotomize as propounded in assimilation-contrast theory and as exemplified in stereotyping.
Not an illustration will be employed, not an argument used, not a statement made, not a doctrine propounded, that will escape their criticism.
