pronunciamento
Americannoun
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
President George Meany, 71, issued a pronunciamento that sounded like a declaration of independence from the Democrats.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, therefore, English women schoolteachers listened nervously for a scathing male pronunciamento.
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
My own province suffers in this respect more than most; for as soon as a man acquires considerable skill in chemistry or biology, he is apt to issue a pronunciamento 135 on philosophy.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
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
Pompous officials deliver pronunciamentos even when there is no one left to listen.
From Time Magazine Archive
We are sick of Spanish revolutions, disgusted with causeless pronunciamentos, and corrupt intrigues, weary of Madame Muñoz and “the innocent Isabel,” of palace plots and mock elections, base ministers and imbecile Infantas.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
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