pronunciamentos

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
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