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verb

préconiser

/pʁe.kɔ.ni.ze/

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verb/pʁe.kɔ.ni.ze/

to recommend, advocate; to preconise (to announce the appointment of a bishop)

Elle ne préconisait pas un genre de cure plutôt qu'un autre, pourvu que cette cure fût radicale.She did not recommend a particular kind of treatment over another, provided that the treatment was radical.

Synonyms: recommander

Inherited from Middle French, from Medieval Latin preconizō, praeconizāre, from Latin praecō (“crier, herald”, noun).