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Pronouncement vs Ukase - What's the difference?

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Pronouncement is a related term of ukase.


As nouns the difference between pronouncement and ukase

is that pronouncement is an announcement while ukase is (ukase).

pronouncement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An announcement.
    • The trial concluded with the pronouncement of a guilty verdict.
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
  • *: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.

    • ukase

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ukaz/Ukaz * Ukase

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor.
  • * Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
    • Many estates peopled with crown peasants have been, according to an ukase of Peter the Great, ceded to particular individuals on condition of establishing manufactories
  • * 1805 , The Times , 6 May 1805, page 3, col. C:
    • An Ukase , it appears, has been issued by the Emperor Alexander, to facilitate the introduction of calimancoes and other Norwich goods into his Empire.
  • * 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2004, p. 704:
    • The planters, he explained in a letter to Lincoln, would accept emancipation by ukase in preference to being compelled to enact it themselves in a new constitution.
  • (figuratively) Any absolutist order and/or arrogant proclamation
  • * 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
    • I knew a stunned plunge of disappointment and a bitter anger. What right had he to issue such an arbitrary ukase ?
  • * 2008 , Stephen Burt, "Kick Over the Scenery", London Review of Books , July 2008:
    • It is a short step from discovering that the world we know is a fake or a cheat to discovering that human beings are themselves factitious: that we are robots, ‘simulacra’ (the title of one of Dick’s novels), ‘just reflex machines’, ‘repeating doomed patterns, a single pattern, over and over’ in accordance with biological or economic ukases .

    See also

    * decree * edict * ("ukase" on Wikipedia) ----