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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
Essence, 22 Mar. 2025
Tree Crops was a manifesto for a new way of thinking about agriculture and its relationship to the land.
—Ben Seal, JSTOR Daily, 19 Mar. 2025
The manifestos are serious, but Blanchett is delightfully playful, which helps animate this intellectual exercise into something far more engaging.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2025
Multiple members of Trump's Cabinet were involved in drafting the conservative manifesto.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
The manifesto was written in 1997, and has been recited publicly many times, according to her team.
—Kim Córdova, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
The Empire is a manifesto opposing the most corrupt, childish film genre.
—Armond White, National Review, 14 Mar. 2025
Each creation is a manifesto of freedom, where every woman stays true to her most authentic self.
—Felicity Carter, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
The think tank, which authored Project 2025, the conservative manifesto for how the U.S. should be restructured under a Republican president, published a new report on U.S. fertility last Tuesday.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Manifesto.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manifesto. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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