Definitions for proclaim
proʊˈkleɪm, prə-pro·claim

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. proclaim(verb)

   declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles

   "He was proclaimed King"

2. proclaim, exclaim, promulgate(verb)

   state or announce

   "`I am not a Communist,' he exclaimed"; "The King will proclaim an amnesty"

3. predicate, proclaim(verb)

   affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of

   "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"

4. laud, extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim(verb)

   praise, glorify, or honor

   "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"

Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. proclaim(Verb)

   To excitedly, verbosely and candidly describe.

   Etymology: From proclamare, pro- (forth) + clamare (shout, cry out).

2. proclaim(Verb)

   To announce or declare.

   Etymology: From proclamare, pro- (forth) + clamare (shout, cry out).

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Proclaim(verb)

   to make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace

2. Proclaim(verb)

   to outlaw by public proclamation

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Proclaim

   prō-klām′, v.t. to cry aloud: to publish abroad: to announce officially.—ns. Proclaim′; Proclaim′ant; Proclaim′er; Proclamā′tion, the act of proclaiming: official notice given to the public.—Proclaimed district, a district in which some unusually strict law is brought into force by a form of proclamation. [Fr. proclamer—L. proclamāre—pro, out, clamāre, to cry.]

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'proclaim' in Verbs Frequency: #965

Anagrams for proclaim »

1. picloram

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of proclaim in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of proclaim in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of proclaim in a Sentence

1. Mark Lawrence:

   This has never been about exclusion, it’s about the freedom to practice and proclaim faith in Jesus Christ as it has been handed down to us.

2. José Ortega y Gasset:

   The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

3. Walter Dale Langtry:

   The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.

4. Jeffrey R. Snyder:

   As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant of the people... The Bill of Rights does not grant rights to the people, such that its repeal would legitimately confer upon government the powers otherwise proscribed. The Bill of Rights is the list of the fundamental, inalienable rights, endowed in man by his Creator, that define what it means to be a free and independent people, the rights which must exist to ensure that government governs only with the consent of the people.

5. Anuj Somany:

   People are also animals and it is sheer foolishness on part of a person to even proclaim or consider ever that we are better than other living organism on an intelligence level.

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