manifesto

noun man·i·fes·to \ ˌma-nə-ˈfes-(ˌ)tō \

Updated on: 13 Apr 2018

Definition of manifesto

plural manifestos or manifestoes

: a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer

The group's manifesto focused on helping the poor and stopping violence.

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Examples of manifesto in a Sentence

The group's manifesto focused on helping the poor and stopping violence.

Recent Examples of manifesto from the Web

But pull up the League’s campaign manifesto, dig past the strident anti-immigration and anti-Muslim rhetoric, and suddenly the tone turns more poetic.

— jason farago, New York Times, "A New Italy, Imagined by Artists and Demagogues," 21 Mar. 2018
His brother identified Kaczynski to the FBI after recognizing the language in a manifesto that The New York Times and The Washington Post published at the request of Attorney General Janet Reno.

— bart jansen and kevin johnson, USA TODAY, "Authorities chasing a serial bomber in Austin who is organized, sophisticated — and moving quickly," 20 Mar. 2018
In his manifesto Business for Punks: Break All the Rules—the BrewDog Way, Watt posits himself as the Johnny Rotten of beer-making.

— david arky, Smithsonian, "How Do You Make Beer in Space?," 20 Mar. 2018
Before the attack, the 22-year-old published a manifesto that talked about, among other things, his hatred of women and interracial couples.

— shane dixon kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, "Two Oregon men land on list of 'alt-right killers'," 7 Feb. 2018
In April, Jakubowski stole 18 guns, two silencers and ammunition from the shop, then became a fugitive after sending a 161-page anti-government manifesto to President Donald Trump.

— bruce vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "While Joseph Jakubowski is on trial, someone else burglarizes same Janesville gun shop," 30 Jan. 2018
This mandate, in addition to a promise to rectify Los Blancos' financial troubles as the Millennium drew closer, was the crux of Perez's manifesto which finally secured him the Santiago Bernabeu presidency at the second time of asking.

— SI.com, "Why Florentino Perez's Mistakes Over a Decade Ago Could Spell the End of Cristiano Ronaldo in Madrid," 29 Jan. 2018
Yao had posted video of a manifesto linked to the Virginia Tech mass-shooter and another video of a shooting demonstration.

— danny mcdonald, BostonGlobe.com, "Six years of Winchester police interactions with Jeffrey Yao," 8 Mar. 2018
This is because many clients have modern taste, but most of them don’t really want to live in an architectural manifesto.

— david netto, Town & Country, "How One Hamptons Designer Made a Striking Modern House Livable," 7 Mar. 2018

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manifesto Has Latin Roots

Manifesto is related to manifest, which occurs in English as a noun, verb, and adjective. Of these, the adjective, which means "readily perceived by the senses" or "easily recognized," is oldest, dating to the 14th century. Both manifest and manifesto derive ultimately from the Latin noun manus ("hand") and -festus, a combining form that is related to the Latin adjective infestus, meaning "hostile." Something that is manifest is easy to perceive or recognize, and a manifesto is a statement in which someone makes his or her intentions or views easy for people to ascertain. Perhaps the most famous statement of this sort is the Communist Manifesto, written in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to outline the platform of the Communist League.