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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
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
Additionally, the new Trump administration may pursue caps on Medicaid recipient expenditures as outlined in the Project 2025 manifesto published by The Heritage Foundation.
—Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
In Part Two of The Second Interrogation, Wang offers a manifesto.
—Philip Tinari, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Political manifestos, smileys, religious satire––the provocative and ironic Moschino symbology is very much here, along with a colorful array of ties, collars, bras.
—Chiara Barzini, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2025
In notable ways, the night unfolded very differently from a Rage Against the Machine concert, which are dependably explosive gatherings, a nightly manifesto on social justice amid the crushing riffs and agitated vocals.
—Steve Appleford, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2025
Toscani and American freelance journalist Ken Shulman interviewed and photographed 26 prisoners awaiting execution in US jails in a campaign which read like a passionate manifesto against capital punishment.
—Reuters, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Manifesto.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manifesto. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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