pronunciamento means A manifesto or formal public declaration, originally political; a proclamation. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
Why this word is great
PRONUNCIAMENTO — [Noun] A formal public declaration or proclamation, especially of a political nature, or, in a Latin American context, an insurrection launched by such a declaration. Borrowed from Spanish pronunciamento, from pronunciamiento, from Latin prōnūntiāre ("to proclaim, pronounce") + the suffix -mentum ("-ment", indicating an action or result). Unlike a "manifesto" (which outlines theoretical ideals) or a "proclamation" (which asserts established authority), a pronunciamento is the hinge between word and deed, a speech act that aims to become a military fact. It is the scratch of a quill in a provincial barracks, the crackle of a radio broadcast from a seized transmitter, and the gunpowder-tinged silence before the barracks gates swing open—the moment rhetoric decides to test its strength against the world.
noun
- A manifesto or formal public declaration, originally political; a proclamation.“I think of [Oswald] Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for.”
- In Mexico and Latin America, an uprising or insurrection.“[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.”