Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An official or authoritarian declaration; a proclamation or edict.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pronunciamiento .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A proclamation or manifesto; a formal announcement or declaration.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But a few years before that Huxley and his colleagues got up a kind of pronunciamento deploring the existing state of affairs.
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But a few years before that Huxley and his colleagues got up a kind of pronunciamento deploring the existing state of affairs.
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900
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It's no accident that the favored form of pronunciamento for Sarah Palin, before she discovered Twitter, that is, was the Facebook status update.
William Bradley: Weinergate's Lasting Impact: The First Big Social Media Political Sex Scandal William Bradley 2011
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It's no accident that the favored form of pronunciamento for Sarah Palin, before she discovered Twitter, that is, was the Facebook status update.
William Bradley: Weinergate's Lasting Impact: The First Big Social Media Political Sex Scandal William Bradley 2011
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It's no accident that the favored form of pronunciamento for Sarah Palin, before she discovered Twitter, that is, was the Facebook status update.
William Bradley: Weinergate's Lasting Impact: The First Big Social Media Political Sex Scandal William Bradley 2011
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It's no accident that the favored form of pronunciamento for Sarah Palin, before she discovered Twitter, that is, was the Facebook status update.
William Bradley: Weinergate's Lasting Impact: The First Big Social Media Political Sex Scandal William Bradley 2011
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MacArthur, with his “pronunciamento,” wrote Acheson, had perpetrated a major act of sabotage.
Truman Fires MacArthur David McCullough 2010
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A pronunciamento is where the military at the behest of civilian authority acts.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Release the Koh Memorandum on Honduras 2009
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When shall we tune in KUOW for your pronunciamento?
Sound Politics: "Peak Oil" Despair Versus Energy Innovation 2007
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Il 1° maggio, 21 dei firmatari della precedente lettera si rivolsero quindi al cardinale William Levada, prefetto della congregazione per la dottrina della fede, chiedendo alla congregazione un pronunciamento chiarificatore sulla dottrina della Chiesa in materia di aborto.
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