Definition of "propounding" [propounding]

• Present participle of propound. (verb)

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• "Now she knew that, in propounding this question, Ibrahim was laying a trap for her; for if she said,"
• "Kalkin, that’s idiotic, and if you continue in propounding it you will fail just the way that the Soviets failed."
• "But if or when -- she used that phrase, in set terms propounding her resolution to herself -- if or when the call of her children, of her home, came and was paramount, she could give up everything and respond to it."