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adj. - Relating to the act of announcing or being announced.

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Usage examples (3)
  • The voice of the trumpets was not musical but annunciatory.
  • The subjective urgency that Van Gogh's objective studies often projected, as of annunciatory apparitions, now melts the boundary between seer and seen, sight and psyche.
  • Otherwise, had I gone abroad in the robes of the Tatrix, we would have been encumbered by guards and crowds; we would have had to travel in a palanquin; we would have been...
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