Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A formal expression of opinion; a judgment.
- noun An authoritative statement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of pronouncing; a proclamation; a formal announcement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of pronouncing; a declaration; a formal announcement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
announcement .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an authoritative declaration
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Examples
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It seems to me that the only way you could make that pronouncement is if you did see some very visible arm-twisting out there on behalf of the White House.
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But that pronouncement is not shared by all Christians.
Science 2009
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If this pronouncement is taken seriously, then almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine ….
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Every official pronouncement is now framed within the psyche of a nation
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Ultimately, Wasserman's pronouncement is at least as condescending to the "worthy dead" as it is to the "ambitious living."
Canonical Writers 2008
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For gays, this pronouncement is critical because it is portable — that is, gays can now challenge any California state policy that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation.
Boing Boing 2008
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But this latest pronouncement from the State Department conflicts with something called facts.
Think Progress » Hagel: Military Strike on Iran is ‘Not a Viable, Feasible, Responsible Option’ 2006
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"One word," pleads Mary, "and all will be as if it never happened [Ein Wort macht alles ungeschehen]," not only stating a conviction about Elizabeth’s power to set her free, but also making clear that once this pronouncement is articulated, there is nothing else to be doneor more precisely, everything will be undone, since, among other things, Mary’s freedom will have been freed from the pronouncement that would set it free (340).
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That’s a pronouncement from a guy named Mohsen Gharavian, who works for Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, both of whom are outranked by Khameini.
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That’s a pronouncement from a guy named Mohsen Gharavian, who works for Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, both of whom are outranked by Khameini.
shanvrolijk commented on the word pronouncement
"sometimes as a ‘prophet of doom’ (thanks to his pronouncements about the dire prospects for humanity"
Source: The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why?
January 22, 2018