Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A manifesto or proclamation; a formal announcement or declaration: often applied to the declarations of insurrectionists. Also
pronunciamento .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
pronunciamento .
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- noun A
military uprising orcoup inSpain or the Spanish American republics, particularly in the 19th century, usually accompanied by a statement declaring the existing government null and void.
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Examples
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The political agitators are mostly among them; and it is they, more than any other class, who are continually stirring up factions and making pronunciamientos (what a pleasant thing it is that we have never had to make an English word for "pronunciamiento").
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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Necesito ponerle m�s atenci�n cu�ndo selecto la palabra con el propio pronunciamiento.
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Necesito ponerle m�s atenci�n cu�ndo selecto la palabra con el propio pronunciamiento.
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Necesito ponerle m�s atenci�n cu�ndo selecto la palabra con el propio pronunciamiento.
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"Con su pronunciamiento, Vicente Fox se ubica en la postura de un digno hacendado de principios del siglo XX".
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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"Con su pronunciamiento, Vicente Fox se ubica en la postura de un digno hacendado de principios del siglo XX".
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England bow to, let us not be too angry with her idolatry, and bear with our queen a little before we make our pronunciamiento.
The Newcomes 2006
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Some intriguing general issued a _pronunciamiento_, the troops revolted, and the Central
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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Had our population intelligence enough to comprehend that the choice was between order and anarchy, between the equilibrium of a government by law and the tussle of misrule by _pronunciamiento_?
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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Manila, he issued his _pronunciamiento_ simultaneously at his birthplace, at Novaleta, and at San Francisco de Malabon.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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