pronouncement

noun

1. An official public announcement.

   “The trial concluded with the pronouncement of a guilty verdict.”

2. An utterance.

   “Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.”

   “His pronouncements carried great authority, but his physical difficulties often caused them to be enigmatic in their brevity.”

   “This grinchy pronouncement by the president had the value of being truthful.”