pronunciamento
Americannoun
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pronunciamentos
plural
noun
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an edict, proclamation, or manifesto, esp one issued by rebels in a Spanish-speaking country
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an authoritarian announcement
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Etymology
Origin of pronunciamento
1825–35; < Spanish pronunciamiento < Latin prōnūntiā ( re ) to pronounce + -mentum -ment
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The technical term for that sort of takeover is pronunciamento, Spanish for declaration.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2016
In a pronunciamento to the whole country, Chang Tsao-Tsen declared that peaceful efforts at reunification had failed and practically admitted that he was powerless against the opposition of the war lords.
From Time Magazine Archive
A pronunciamento in the A.O.U. magazine Auk stripped the Baltimore oriole of its name; henceforth Icterus galbula will be known by the prosaic name "northern oriole."
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, therefore, English women schoolteachers listened nervously for a scathing male pronunciamento.
From Time Magazine Archive
So would it have been but for a betrayal, through which the pronunciamento had miscarried, or rather did not come off.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid
With votes at stake, with polls changing almost hourly, it is only natural that politicians and their close supporters provide a nearly endless stream of pronunciamentos rife with contradictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2016
From these pronunciamentos, you might deduce that Steward was a little depressed.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2015
"He would come on the set and make big pronunciamentos, and I would chuckle at him."
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2015
He still guns his emotional engine too loud, and the exhaust from his pronunciamentos of ten obscures the man.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are, according to all accounts, a turbulent and somewhat fanatic set, fond of quarrels, and slightly addicted to "pronunciamentos."
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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