What's the difference between declare and denounce?

Declare


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make clear; to free from obscurity.
  • (v. t.) To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.
  • (v. t.) To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false.
  • (v. t.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.
  • (v. i.) To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies.
  • (v. i.) To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
  • (2) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
  • (3) It could provoke the gravest risk, that all three rating agencies declare a credit event and then there are big contagion risks for other countries," he said.
  • (4) The alignment of Clinton’s Iowa team, all but guaranteeing a declaration of her official campaign before the end of next month, was coming into view amid reports that she was due to address by the end of the week controversy over her use of a private email account as secretary of state.
  • (5) It was found that the increase of AMI patients admitted to our hospital was due to an increase in the hospitalization rate of AMI patients and the establishment of the coronary care unit (CCU) which allowed the admittance of patients who might have been declared dead out-of-hospital in the past.
  • (6) Aitken was subsequently declared bankrupt and went to prison.
  • (7) In Tokyo, the US president warned China against forcibly pressing its maritime claims, following Beijing's unilateral declaration last autumn of an air exclusion zone over Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.
  • (8) They’re staying home,” Cruz declared in his speech.
  • (9) "We all want this information to be available now, not to emerge in a fragmented way, as and when individual declarations are made," he said.
  • (10) These limitations expressly declared in the ISO 2631 guide are also implicit in the other regulations proposed.
  • (11) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
  • (12) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
  • (13) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
  • (14) Having given my consent to Pavid's love declaration, I went home and properly lost my mind.
  • (15) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
  • (16) In my party there are no red lines, only firm convictions,” he declared.
  • (17) Former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, also weighed in for Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday, declaring: “Donald J Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.” Republicans stumbling from the wreckage of a terrible week are worrying about how to contain the damage further down the ballot paper in November as people running for seats in Congress and at state level risk being swept away.
  • (18) Musk declared the spacecraft a big leap forward in technology.
  • (19) P eople in this country have had enough of experts,” declared Michael Gove last week .
  • (20) The residents in this zone are aware of the problem and a great proportion of them declare to be damaged in a greater or smaller magnitude.

Denounce


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).
  • (v. t.) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.
  • (v. t.) To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (2) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government has joined MPs, bloggers and local media in denouncing the newly-released Warner Brothers epic, 300, as a calculated attempt to demonise Iran at a time of intensifying US pressure over the country's nuclear programme.
  • (3) Preliminary the statistical data are reported about human malignant pustule denounced in Italy in different Districts, in Lombardia and in Province of Milan.
  • (4) By contrast, a Guardian Australia video of Labor's transport spokesman, Anthony Albanese, using a whiteboard to denounce the government's package received more than 60,000 hits.
  • (5) In a sign of growing divisions among the coalition partners, the deputy prime minister interrupted his attendance at the Rio+20 summit to authorise a briefing by party officials criticising the plans and denouncing Gove.
  • (6) I wanted to make a big ideological point, and I had but one weapon in my arsenal: a pulpit that I could use to denounce the very thing that had given me a voice.
  • (7) It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else.
  • (8) A broad coalition of Egyptian organisations – some Islamist, some secular – plan to join with British NGOs and trade unions in protest at Sisi’s arrival ; letters denouncing Cameron’s invitation have been issued by political figures and academics , and an early-day motion in parliament condemning the visit has been signed by 51 MPs, including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
  • (9) I got a hint of the price she has paid for her ambidextrous approach to cultural identify after her last interview was published, when a shocking number of British Pakistani men got in touch to denounce her as a shameful infidel.
  • (10) China's ambassador to Japan, Cui Tiankai, denounced her as a criminal.
  • (11) In recent months there have been series of protests against the intensifying campaign, with one Catholic leader denouncing the cross removals as an “evil act” .
  • (12) Honest journalism and the courageous whistleblowers who denounce human rights violations or attempts against state sovereignty deserve to be protected.
  • (13) Rather than immediately denouncing everything we see, why not listen to the full arguments from a variety of sources and form an opinion based on facts and information rather than ignorance and emotive reflex?
  • (14) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
  • (15) Finally, after reporting 14 incidents with no reply he sent a recorded delivery letter to the agency denouncing a "health scandal".
  • (16) Moreover, the state-controlled Chinese media have in a series of broadcasts denounced a number of detained “suspects” as members of a crime syndicate engaging in “rights-defence-style troublemaking”, and paraded some of those detained “confessing” to wrongdoing before they have even been publicly indicted.
  • (17) They helped to persuade him to order the release of all victims still in exile and to make the "secret speech" in 1956 in which he denounced Stalin's crimes.
  • (18) Still, in interviews with home-state reporters Monday, Ryan denounced the idea of any Republican launching a third-party or independent candidacy to challenge Trump, telling the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel it “would be a disaster for our party”.
  • (19) "We have denounced them to the police, but the police say they need evidence, such as pictures, but imagine taking pictures when they were jihadis, they would have cut your throat.
  • (20) Sony Pictures has denounced a “brazen” cyberattack it said netted a “large amount” of confidential information, including movies as well as personnel and business files.