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declaration

noun
/ˌdɛk.ləˈɹeɪ.ʃən/CA/ˌdek.ləˈɹæɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English declaration, declaracion, declaracioun, from Old French declaration (French déclaration), from Latin dēclārātiōnem, accusative of Latin dēclārātiō.

  1. derived from dēclārātiō
  2. derived from dēclārātiōnem
  3. derived from declaration
  4. inherited from declaration

Definitions

  1. An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing

    An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.

    • The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair […].

  2. Specifically, a declaration of love.

    • I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.
    • He blushed a great deal when the others chaffed him for his obvious preference. He made the first declaration in his life to Fräulein Hedwig, but unfortunately it was an accident […].

  3. A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. The act or process of declaring.

    2. The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.

    3. In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the…

      In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.

    4. The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its…

      The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.

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Derived

counterdeclaration, declaration bowling, declaration of intent, declaration of love, declaration of war, declaration of will, dying declaration, misdeclaration, nondeclaration, predeclaration, redeclaration, tax declaration, undeclaration

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at declaration. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at declaration. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at declaration

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA