pronunciamento

Noun

pronunciamento (plural pronunciamentos)

1. 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.1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 6
   • 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.2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 249
2. 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.1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 156