Definition of "pronouncement"

pronouncement

noun
plural pronouncements
1. An official public announcement.
2. An utterance.
  Quotations
  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.
  July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises
  His pronouncements carried great authority, but his physical difficulties often caused them to be enigmatic in their brevity.
  March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary