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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," is oldest, dating to the 14th century. Both manifest and manifesto derive ultimately from the Latin noun manus ("hand") and -festus, a combining form of uncertain meaning that is also found in the Latin adjective infestus ("hostile"), an ancestor of the English infest. 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 well-known 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.
Examples of manifesto in a Sentence
Asra Q. Nomani , Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
The manifesto characterized his targets as rapists and pedophiles.
—Ana Ceballos
follow, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
Allen suggested Trump was one of his top targets, according to his alleged manifesto.
—Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 26 Apr. 2026
Critics called the manifesto fascist.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2026
The Boise couple prosecutors charged with publishing a manifesto commanding others to hunt and kill a list of local residents was found guilty by a jury Thursday.
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 23 Apr. 2026
Such an attempt to normalize petty crime makes Vicky Osterweil’s 2020 manifesto, In Defense of Looting, look high-minded.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
In his text, Andreessen—who founded Netscape, the first commercial browser company, in the 1990s—frames technological progress as a moral good, a struggle in which, the manifesto claims with modernist gusto, beauty and progress are fused.
—Simon Denny, Artforum, 20 Apr. 2026
Authorities then found a manifesto from Moreno-Gama warning of humanity’s extinction at the hands of AI, which included a threat of murder.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2026
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“Manifesto.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manifesto. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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