Pronunciamento

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A manifesto or formal public declaration, originally political; a proclamation.

    "I think of [Oswald] Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for."

  2. 2
    a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) wordnet
  3. 3
    In Mexico and Latin America, an uprising or insurrection.

    "[H]e did not want to see Brazil suffer the same fate as those South American countries whose history has been nothing but a succession of barrack-room pronunciamentos."

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"I think of [Oswald] Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pronunciamento. Doublet of pronouncement.

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