pronunciamento
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A manifesto or formal public declaration, originally political; a proclamation.
noun
In Mexico and Latin America, an uprising or insurrection.
Example Sentences
- "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."