declaration

Definitions

1. An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.
   countable, uncountable
2. An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation
3. Specifically, a declaration of love.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
4. Specifically, a declaration of love
5. A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
   countable, uncountable
6. A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration
7. The act or process of declaring.
   countable, uncountable
8. The act or process of declaring
9. The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed
10. The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
    countable, uncountable
11. In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
    countable, uncountable
12. The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The weather was not tempting enough to draw⟳ the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair […].”

“I went to Miss⟳ Mills's, fraught with a declaration.”

“He blushed a great deal⟳ when the others chaffed him for his obvious preference. He made the first declaration in his life to Fräulein Hedwig, but unfortunately it was an accident […].”

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