pronunciamento

Definitions

1. A manifesto or formal public declaration, originally political; a proclamation.
2. In Mexico and Latin America, an uprising or insurrection.

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Examples

“I think⟳ of [Oswald] Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder⟳ if style, style in the grand manner, is done for.”

“After assembling an army in Catalonia, he marched on Madrid, issuing en route a pronunciamento calling on the Queen Regent to banish Valenzuela and to accept⟳ him as her first minister.”

“[H]e did not want⟳ to see⟳ Brazil suffer⟳ the same fate as those South American countries whose history has been nothing but a succession of barrack-room pronunciamentos.”

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