proclaimant

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Someone who or something that proclaims.

   • This cannot mean old Jerusalem, for there the hour of worship is past, but the new Jerusalem, or gospel, which has never been without proclaimants, and never will be, both in heaven and earth.
   • I trembled lest he should send me to call her; but I was spared the pain of being the first proclaimant of her flight.
2. 2

   Alternative form of pro-claimant.

   • He further asserts that the bill is not all proclaimant in that it completely rules out common law suits against employers arising out of the employment of minors or the violation of safety standards.
   • Physicians were chosen who were outstanding in their fields and served either as professors or chiefs of hospital services but who were not known as prodefendent or proclaimant doctors.

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