propoundment

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Being uttered before it was possible for the propounders to have formed a judgment by mere human means upon that gentleman's merits.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

"Would you break up the congregation?" was the sharp rejoinder to the early propounders of schemes for Church-extension in York.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

As to the fee, the rules are precise and their propounders are unblushing.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Hopkins, Edward Washburn

It was included in the programme of import duty reforms of the Whig government in 1841, and fell with its propounders in the general election of that year.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

Not by propounders of that test is the rationalist to be put to shame.

From Rationalism by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)