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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
Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
In December 2024, independent journalist Ken Klippenstein published a transcript of the legible parts of the alleged manifesto.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
The proposal amounts to a political manifesto as much as a governing plan.
—Nik Popli, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
Speaking of Andor, Nemik’s manifesto has had a second wind this year, coming off the screen and out into the real world.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
The book serves as both autobiography and manifesto, providing a roadmap for entrepreneurs who refuse to choose between profit and purpose.
—Pooja Shah, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
At Basel, not even Herzl, who had written a manifesto titled The Jewish State the year before, insisted on it.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
President John Mahama, who took office in January, made a $10 billion infrastructure program a key pillar of his campaign manifesto.
—Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2025
In their 2014 manifesto, the European leftist collective Plan C wrote that each age of capitalism comes with an attendant affect.
—P.e. Moskowitz
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“Manifesto.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manifesto. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.
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