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Declaration   /dˌɛklərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Declaration

noun
1.
A statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written).
2.
(law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction.
3.
A statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties.
4.
(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make.  Synonym: contract.
5.
A formal public statement.  Synonyms: announcement, annunciation, proclamation.  "A declaration of independence"
6.
A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote.  Synonyms: resolution, resolve.



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"Declaration" Quotes from Famous Books



... ruin millions of your fellow-countrymen,—you would reduce sovereign states to a situation of disgraceful dependence. And all, sir," now he raised his voice lest the Judge break in, "all, sir, for the sake of a low breed that ain't fit for freedom. You and I, who have the Magna Charta and the Declaration of Independence behind us, who are descended from a race that has done nothing but rule for ten centuries and more, may well establish a Republic where the basis of stability is the self-control of the individual—as long as men such as you and I form its citizens. Look at the South Americans. ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... sunbonnet and the little checkered dress She wore when first I kissed her and she answered the caress With the written declaration that, "as surely as the vine Grew 'round the stump," she loved me—that old sweetheart ...
— The Complete Works • James Whitcomb Riley
... This declaration caused a little check in the conversation and put an end to the amiability. The cowboys looked at one another, not embarrassed, but just a little taken aback, as if they had forgotten something that they should ...
— The Mysterious Rider • Zane Grey
... the exception of some of the States in the United States, the laws are most stringent regarding the prompt declaration on the part of the owner and attending veterinarian at the first suspicion of a case of glanders, and they allow indemnity for the animal. When this is done, in all cases the animal is destroyed and the articles ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
... whatever conditions the cosmic process might create, so long as those conditions were compatible with the progress towards virtue, which alone, for them, conferred a worthy object on existence. There is no note of despair in the stoical declaration that the perfected "wise man" is the equal of Zeus in everything but the duration of his existence. And, in my judgment, there is as little pride about it, often as it serves for the text of discourses on stoical arrogance. Grant the stoical postulate that there is no good except virtue; ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley


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