pronouncement

noun

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman and Old French prononcement. By surface analysis, pronounce + -ment. Doublet of pronunciamento.

Definitions

  1. An official public announcement.

    • The trial concluded with the pronouncement of a guilty verdict.
  2. An utterance.

    • Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
    • His pronouncements carried great authority, but his physical difficulties often caused them to be enigmatic in their brevity.
    • This grinchy pronouncement by the president had the value of being truthful.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pronouncement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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