| Philadelphia |
a city in southeastern Pennsylvania, the largest city in the state and one of the most populous in the U.S., important as a government center during the Revolutionary War and home to Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and The U.S. Constitution were signed. |
| predicate |
to make a declaration or statement. [1/7 definitions] |
| Prize Cases |
a U.S. Supreme Court case decided in 1863 that held that, despite the absence of a declaration of war, President Lincoln acted within his powers to order the seizure of ships blockaded from Southern ports. |
| profess |
to make an open declaration. [1/7 definitions] |
| professedly |
by open declaration. [1/2 definitions] |
| profession |
the act of avowing; declaration. [1/4 definitions] |
| pronounce |
to make a declaration or announcement. [1/7 definitions] |
| pronouncement |
a formal or official declaration. [1/2 definitions] |
| protest |
to make an earnest or firm declaration. [1/7 definitions] |
| protestation |
an emphatic or earnest declaration. [1/3 definitions] |
| put in |
to formally submit (an offer, application, declaration, or the like). [1/7 definitions] |
| renounce |
to give up (a right or claim) usu. by formal declaration or announcement; waive. [1/5 definitions] |
| statement |
something stated; assertion; declaration. [1/3 definitions] |
| swear |
to take (an oath) to give force to a promise, declaration, or the like. [3/9 definitions] |
| swear by |
to name (someone or something) as one's witness or guarantee as to the truth of a declaration or the solemnity of a promise. [1/2 definitions] |
| testify |
to make a solemn declaration or affirmation, esp. under oath. [1/6 definitions] |
| testimony |
a public declaration of religious experience or faith. [1/3 definitions] |
| Thomas Jefferson |
U.S. statesman, architect, and one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence, who became the third President of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809 (b.1743--d.1826). |
| threat |
a declaration of intent to cause harm or difficulty, or to inflict punishment. [1/3 definitions] |
| undeclared war |
a conflict that has the characteristics of a war, including open, armed fighting between nations or groups of people, but is not precipitated by an official declaration of war. |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
the declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, outlining a standard of human rights for all people. |