pronouncement
nounEtymology
From Anglo-Norman and Old French prononcement. By surface analysis, pronounce + -ment. Doublet of pronunciamento.
- derived from and Old French prononcement
Definitions
An official public announcement.
- The trial concluded with the pronouncement of a guilty verdict.
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