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proclaim

verb
/pɹəʊˈkleɪm/UK/pɹoʊˈkleɪm/CA/pɹəʉˈklæɪm/

Etymology

From Middle English proclamen, proclaime, from Old French proclamer, from Latin prōclāmō, prōclāmāre, from prō- (“forth”) + clāmō (“to shout, cry out”). Spelling altered by influence of claim, from the same Latin source (clāmō).

  1. derived from proclamo
  2. derived from proclamer
  3. inherited from proclamen

Definitions

  1. To announce or declare.

    • You have seen it for yourselves in the play by Aristophanes, where Socrates goes whirling round, proclaiming that he is walking on air, and uttering a great deal of other nonsense about things of which I know nothing whatsoever.

  2. To make (something) the subject of an official proclamation bringing it within the scope…

    To make (something) the subject of an official proclamation bringing it within the scope of emergency powers.

    • Were those baronies proclaimed at the time you were in them? –Some of them are; the barony of Duhallow is proclaimed.
    • … the Magistrates present, naturally excited by the occurrence, applied to Government to proclaim the baronies in which the outrage had occurred …
    • In due course the Dáil was proclaimed, fruitless efforts were made to suppress it and all its institutions, including, of course, the IRA.

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Derived

misproclaim, proclaimable, proclaimant, proclaimer, reproclaim, self-proclaimed, unproclaimed

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA