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Definition: PROCLAIMING |
PROCLAIMINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Proclaim |
Date "PROCLAIMING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: PROCLAIMING |
| English words defined with "PROCLAIMING": commination ♦ Predicant, Prenunciation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PROCLAIMING": Sheba ♦ WEIGHT GUESSER. (references) |
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Screenplays | - proclaiming in incandescent glory the myriad mind of Man (Fantastic Voyage; writing credit: Jerome Bixby; David Duncan) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Military and civilian personnel in an office in the Main Navy or Munitions Buildings, circa 1919. Numbers on columns indicate that this space is on the third floor, eighth wing, looking south in of one of those buildings. Many of the people present are Navy Yeomen and Yeomen (F). This office is in the same space as seen in Photo # NH 52923, but on the opposite side of the room. Note name tags for "Miss Jones" and "Miss Crandall" on desks in the photo center; also Red Cross participation poster on the back wall, proclaiming "We Belong - 100% Strong". Credit: NAVY. |  | Building in Scott, Louisiana, proclaiming welcome to the West. This is on the O.S.T. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Thomas B. Macaulay | Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It went to the extreme length of directly opposing the "brutally destructive" tendency of Communism, and of proclaiming its supreme and impartial contempt of all class struggles. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Local governments, especially in Khabarovskiy Krai, although proclaiming a foreign investment friendly policy, have been involved in several expropriation attempts. (references) | |
Economic History | Nigeria | In October 1963, Nigeria altered its relationship with the United Kingdom by proclaiming itself a federal republic and promulgating a new constitution. (references) |
Lithuania | On Sajudis' demand, the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet passed constitutional amendments on the supremacy of Lithuanian laws over Soviet legislation, annulled the 1940 decisions on proclaiming Lithuania a part of the U.S.S.R., legalized a multi-party system and adopted a number of other important decisions. (references) | |
Bangladesh | After proclaiming a state of emergency, Mujib used his parliamentary majority to win a constitutional amendment limiting the powers of the legislative and judicial branches, establishing an executive presidency, and instituting a one-party system, the Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BAKSAL), which all members of Parliament were obliged to join. (references) | |
Minorities | Russia | On April 20, activists in Rostov Velikiy picketed the proposed site for the construction of a Jehovah's Witnesses center, proclaiming their opposition to "totalitarian cults." In March the head of the local department of the Ministry of Justice and other local officials held a press conference at Nizhniy Novgorod's city hall in which they called for noncooperation with such groups as the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Moonies, and the Scientologists. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PROCLAIMING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.97% of the time. "PROCLAIMING" is used about 194 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 98.97% | 192 | 22,147 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.03% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 194 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PROCLAIMING": self-proclaiming. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
proclaiming | 7 |
gospel proclaiming | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PROCLAIMING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 宣告 (proclaim, Proclaimed). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | proclamant. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | proklamierende, proklamierend, ausrufend (exclaiming). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 呼号 (crying out). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ""う (crying out, man of experience, old-timer, veteran). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 언 (Declaration, Declaring, manifesto). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oclaimingpray glaodhaich (calling), éigheach (a cry, crying). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Revelation Chapter 5, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eidon aggelon iscuron khrussonta fwnh megalh tiV estin axioV anoixai to biblion kai lusai taV sfragidaV autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et vidi angelum fortem praedicantem voce magna quis est dignus aperire librum et solvere signacula eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Y say a strong aungel, prechynge with a greet vois, Who is worthi to opene the book, and to vndon the seelis of it? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And I sawe a stronge angell which cryed with a loude voyce: Who is worthy to open the boke and to loose the seales therof. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose its seals? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And I saw a strong angel saying in a loud voice, Who is able to make the book open, and to undo its stamps? |
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| Language | Revelation Chapter 5, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | Ug nakita ko ang usa ka kusgan nga manolunda nga nagapahibalo pinaagi sa makusog nga tingog nga nagaingon, "Kinsa ba ang takus sa pag-abli sa basahong linukot ug sa pagtangtang sa mga timri niini?" |
| Croatian | I vidjeh snažna anðela gdje iza glasa proglašuje: "Tko je dostojan otvoriti knjigu i otpeèatiti peèate njezine?" |
| Danish | Og jeg så en vældig Engel, som udråbte med høj Røst: Hvem er værdig til at åbne Bogen og bryde dens Segl? |
| Dutch | En ik zag een sterken engel, uitroepende met een grote stem: Wie is waardig het boek te openen, en zijn zegelen open te breken? |
| Finnish | Ja minä näin väkevän enkelin, joka suurella äänellä kuulutti: "Kuka on arvollinen avaamaan tämän kirjan ja murtamaan sen sinetit?" |
| French | Et je vis un ange puissant, qui criait d`une voix forte: Qui est digne d`ouvrir le livre, et d`en rompre les sceaux? |
| German | Und ich sah einen starken Engel, der rief aus mit großer Stimme: Wer ist würdig, das Buch aufzutun und seine Siegel zu brechen? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu saya melihat seorang malaikat yang perkasa berseru-seru dengan suara yang besar, "Siapa layak memecahkan segel-segel ini dan membuka buku ini?" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan aku tampak pula seorang malaekat yang gagah memberitakan dengan suara besar, katanya, "Siapakah berlayak membuka kitab itu dan mengoyakkan meterainya?" |
| Italian | Vidi un angelo forte che proclamava a gran voce: «Chi è degno di aprire il libro e scioglierne i sigilli?». |
| Maori | A i kite ahau i tetahi anahera kaha e karanga ana, he nui te reo, Ko wai e tika ana hei whakatuwhera i te pukapuka, hei wawahi i ona hiri? |
| Norwegian | Og jeg så en veldig engel, som ropte med høi røst: Hvem er verdig til å åpne boken og bryte seglene på den? |
| Portuguese | Vi também um anjo forte, clamando com grande voz: Quem é digno de abrir o livro e de romper os seus selos? |
| Rumanian | Wi am vqzut un knger puternic, care striga cu glas tare: ,,Cine este vrednic sq deschidq cartea wi sq -i rupq peceyile?`` |
| Shuar | Tura nayaimpinmaya suntar ti kakarma nu, ti kakantar inintran wainkiamjai. Niisha Tímiai "¿Ya akupniuk ju papin kaki anujkamun jaak urakminiait?" |
| Spanish | También vi a un ángel poderoso que proclamaba a gran voz: "¿Quién es digno de abrir el libro y de desatar sus sellos?" |
| Swahili | Tena nikamwona malaika mwenye nguvu akitangaza kwa sauti kubwa: "Nani anayestahili kuvunja hiyo mihuri na kukifungua kitabu hicho?" |
| Swedish | Och jag såg en väldig ängel som utropade med hög röst: "Vem är värdig att öppna bokrullen och bryta dess insegel?" |
| Uma | Kuhilo, ria hadua mala'eka to parimuku, mekio' napesukui, na'uli': "Hema to natao mpobongka sura toi? Hema to natao mpobongka saa' -na bona sura toi ma'ala rabasa?" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"PROCLAIMING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preclearing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PROCLAIMING" (pronounced prōklā"ming) |
| 6 | -k l ā" m i ng | acclaiming, claiming, disclaiming, exclaiming, reclaiming. |
| 5 | -l ā" m i ng | blaming, flaming, inflaming. |
| 4 | -ā" m i ng | aiming, framing, gaming, maiming, naming, renaming, shaming, taming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | affirming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, becoming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, fuming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, redeeming, reforming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-i-l-m-n-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: caprioling. | |
-2 letters: clamoring, comparing, compiling, crimpling, imploring. | |
-3 letters: caroling, caroming, claiming, clamping, clomping, complain, cramping, criminal, crimping, gnomical, ignorami, impaling, ironical, logician, morainic, original, paroling, picloram, picogram, pignolia, policing, proclaim, prolamin, rimpling. | |
-4 letters: amorini, calming, camping, campion, campong, carling, carping, cipolin, clangor, clarion, coaling, coaming, coiling, comping, complin, crampon, craping, graplin, gripman, lairing, lamping. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-i-l-m-n-o-p-r" | |
+5 letters: overcomplicating. | |
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