declaration

Definition

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

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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 […]."
• "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 […]."

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