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proclamation

UK/ˌpɹɒkləˈmeɪʃən/US/ˌpɹɑkləˈmeɪʃən/
nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #8,097 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: proclamations

A proclamation is a public official announcement. Issue a proclamation, a royal proclamation, read the proclamation.

It is the formal instrument by which a head of state announces something, and in Britain a proclamation is still read aloud from set places when a monarch dies. The word implies solemnity: nobody makes one about a car park closure.

Definitions of proclamation

  1. 1nounproclamationA public official announcement.B2+

    “The king's proclamation was read aloud in every town square.”

proclamation is an announcement.

Where it comes from

Latin proclamatio comes from proclamare, to cry out — pro, forth, plus clamare, to shout.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *kelh₁-

  2. Latin

    proclāmātiō

  3. Old French

    proclamacion

  4. Middle English

    proclamacion

  5. English, today

    proclamation

From Middle English proclamacion, from Anglo-Norman - and Old French proclamacion, from Latin proclāmātiō, from the verb Latin prōclāmō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

proclamation in the wild

  • The proclamation was modelled on a similar independence proclamation issued during the 1803 rebellion by Robert Emmet.

    Proclamation of the Irish Republic

  • The proclamation was controversial, supported by many established English-speaking Iowans and notably opposed by citizens who spoke languages other than English.

    Babel Proclamation

  • In addition, the procedure of proclaiming the beginning of a rule over a certain ruling territory is called a proclamation.

    Proclamation

  • The 1775 proclamation of rebellion also encouraged subjects throughout the empire, including those in Britain, to report anyone carrying on "traitorous correspondence" with the rebels to be punished.

    Proclamation of Rebellion

  • The National Thanksgiving Proclamation was the first presidential proclamation of Thanksgiving in the United States.

    National Thanksgiving Proclamation

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.