Proclaim meaning

prō-klām', prə-
Proclaim is defined as to announce or declare.

An example of to proclaim is to announce that a fight is over.

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To announce officially and publicly; declare.

Proclaim a general amnesty for political prisoners; proclaim the suspect to be guilty.

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To state emphatically or authoritatively; affirm.

Proclaim one's opposition to an idea.

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To indicate conspicuously; make plain.
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To announce officially; announce to be.
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To show to be.

Acts that proclaimed him a friend.

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To outlaw, ban, or otherwise restrict by a proclamation.
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To extol.
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Origin of proclaim

  • Middle English proclamen, proclaimen (influenced by claimen to claim) from Old French proclamer from Latin prōclāmāre prō- forward pro–1 clāmāre to cry out kelə-2 in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Borrowed from Latin proclamare, from pro- (“forth") + clamare (“to shout, cry out").
    From Wiktionary

Proclaim Sentence Examples

  • The government, therefore (Badeni having resigned), had to proclaim the necessary measures by imperial warrant.

  • Some Russians would have preferred to proclaim Peter as emperor of the East; but Peter himself adopted the more patriotic title.

  • The disciples as they journey are to take no provisions, but to throw themselves Sayings of on the bounty of their hearers; they are to heal the sick and to proclaim the nearness of the kingdom of God.

  • Many of the white farmers in this district, unlike their fellows dwelling farther north, were willing to accept British rule, and this fact induced Mr Justice Menzies, one of the judges of Cape Colony then on circuit at Colesberg, to cross the Orange and proclaim (October 1842) the country British territory, a proclamation disallowed by the governor, Sir George Napier, who, nevertheless, maintained that the emigrant farmers were still British subjects.

  • On his departure from Norway in 1000, the king commissioned him to proclaim Christianity in Greenland.

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