Definition of "pronunciamento" []

• An official or authoritarian declaration; a proclamation or edict. (noun)

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• "But a few years before that Huxley and his colleagues got up a kind of pronunciamento deploring the existing state of affairs."
• "It's no accident that the favored form of pronunciamento for Sarah Palin, before she discovered Twitter, that is, was the Facebook status update."
• "MacArthur, with his “pronunciamento,” wrote Acheson, had perpetrated a major act of sabotage."