manifesto

plural manifestos · plural manifestoes · plural manifesti

1. A public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially that of a political party.

   the Communist Manifesto

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   A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs.

   During the worst days of Bolshevík tyranny, when book publishing had become impossible, the imaginists were a living reminder of undying freedom; they were the only independent group that were not afraid to make themselves noticed by the authorities, and they were wonderfully skilled in getting their slender little collections and manifestoes printed by fair means or foul.

   1949, D. S. Mirsky, A History of Russian Literature, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Book Two, Chapter 6, pp. 494-5

   As a piece of writing, the rambling and often contradictory manifesto has the pathos of the Unabomber manifesto but lacks the ideological coherency.

   2023 October 28, Elizabeth Spiers, “A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Beginning in summer 2022, such posters shared manifestos of an “e/acc” ideology squarely opposed to A.I. fearmongerers like the effective altruists and their fellow “decels” (aka “decelerationists”).

   2023 November 20, Nitish Pahwa, “What the Heck Just Happened at OpenAI??”, in Slate, →ISSN

present singular third person manifestos · participle present manifestoing · participle past manifestoed · past manifestoed

1. intransitiveTo issue a manifesto.