pronunciamentoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pronunciamento (plural pronunciamentos)

1. A manifesto or formal public declaration, originally political; a proclamation. [from 19th c.]
   • 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 6:

     I think of [Oswald] Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for.

   • 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 249:

     After assembling an army in Catalonia, he marched on Madrid, issuing en route a pronunciamento calling on the Queen Regent to banish Valenzuela and to accept him as her first minister.

2. In Mexico and Latin America, an uprising or insurrection. [from 19th c.]
   • 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 156:

     [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.