Proclaim

Definition: Proclaim

Proclaim

Verb

1. Declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles: "He was proclaimed King".

2. State or announce; " `I am not a Communist,' " he exclaimed; "The King will proclaim an amnesty".

3. Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President".

4. Praise, glorify, or honor: "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "proclaim" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Law

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Proclaim

Manifestation

Verb: make manifest, render manifest; Adjective: bring forth, bring forward, bring to the front, bring into view; give notice; express; represent, set forth, exhibit; show, show up; expose; produce; hold up to view, expose to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one, one's eyes; tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to light, display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out; bring out in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold up the mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show one's colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no secret of; unfurl the flag; proclaim; (publish).

Publication

Proclaim, herald, blazon; blaze abroad, noise abroad; sound a trumpet; trumpet forth, thunder forth; give tongue; announce with beat of drum, announce with flourish of trumpets; proclaim from the housetops, proclaim at Charing Cross.

Crosswords: Proclaim

As if to proclaim a miracle had occurred (Hold Back Tomorrow; writing credit: Hugo Haas)

Go, proclaim liberty throughout all the land, and to all the inhabitants thereof (The Ten Commandments; writing credit: J.H. Ingraham; A.E. Southon)

As often as you eat this bread and drink this cup (today), you proclaim my death (yesterday) until I come again (future). (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Miracle to Proclaim (reference)

• Faith to Proclaim (reference)

• Proclaim Him Lord (reference)

• Proclaim Jubilee!: A Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century (reference)

• Sermons Seldom Heard: Women Proclaim Their Lives (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Proclaim (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Gas stations abandoned during the fuel crisis in the winter of 1973-74 were sometimes used for other purposes. This station at Potlatch, Washington, west of Olympia was turned into a religious meeting hall. Signs painted on the gas pumps proclaim 'fill up with the Holy Ghost . . . and Salvation.'". Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He only who denounces the success at one time has a right to proclaim the justice of the downfall

Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled That in submission will return to us.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The British government is most concerned about the one quarter of the population that is happy to proclaim a total lack of interest in ever using the Internet. (references)

Economic History

Libya

On March 3, 1977, Qadhafi convened a General People's Congress (GPC) to proclaim the establishment of "people's power," change the country's name to the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, and to vest, theoretically, primary authority in the GPC. Qadhafi remained the de facto chief of state and secretary general of the GPC until 1980, when he gave up his office. (references)

Minorities

Somalia

Christians, as well as other non-Muslims who proclaim their religion sometimes faced societal harassment. (references)

Political Economy

Somalia

In the northwest, the "Republic of Somaliland" continued to proclaim its independence within the borders of former British Somaliland. (references)

Political Rights

India

On the advice of the Prime Minister, the President may proclaim a state of emergency in any part of the national territory in the event of war, external aggression, or armed rebellion. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "proclaim": proclaim at Charing Cross ♦ proclaim from the housetops ♦ proclaim smb. a traitor ♦ proclaim smb. king ♦ proclaim the banns ♦ proclaim war. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afkondig (issue, promulgate, publish, reveal), bekendstel (acquaint, announce, inform, introduce, issue, let know, perform, present), bekendmaak (acquaint, announce, inform, issue, let know). (various references)

Albanian

zbuloj (bare, belie, bewray, blurt out, bring out, bring to light, catch, contrive, descry, detect, develop, disclose, discover, disinter, distil, distill, divine, divulge, enucleate, explore, ferret, ferret about, ferret out, find, find out, hit, hunt down, invent, look out, open, puzzle out, rat, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, rummage, trace, uncloak, uncover, uncurtain, unearth, unlock, unveil), tregoj (argue, bear, bespeak, betoken, bring out, connotate, connote, denote, designate, direct, display, establish, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose, express oneself, extend, finger, give away, indicate, infer, make out, manifest, narrate, note, point out, present, produce, profess, prove, read, recite, relate, show, show round, spiel, spin out, tell, tell tales, yield), shpall (adjudicate, announce, assert, asseverate, blaze, celebrate, declare, delate, divulge, enounce, enunciate, hold, notify, post, promulgate, pronounce, read, state, usher in), shfaq (bear, display, evince, exert, exhibit, flash, indicate, manifest, outspeak, pour out, present, profess, put on, read off, show, testify), nxjerr në shesh (bare, bring to light, exhume, reveal, uncover), nxjerr jashtë ligjit (outlaw, proscribe), deklaroj (attest, claim, declare, lay down, profess, pronounce). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نادى ب, ‏نادى (call, call for, call out, club, cry, hail, page, sing), ‏نشر (apply, be published, bear, braying, bring out, broadcast, circulate, diffusion, dispose, disseminate, distribute, edition, expand, extend, fudge, gazette, give out, hang out, insert in a newspaper, irradiate, issue, overspread, peddle, pervade, popularize, print, programming, promulgate, promulgation, propagation, publicize, publishing, put forth, put out, run, saw, sawing, sawn, scatter, shake out, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, thrust, trephine, unfold, unroll, unwrap), ‏صرح (avow, castle, certify, cut open, declare, edifice, outrival, palace, predicate, profess, represent, say, state, tower), ‏أكد (accentuate, affirm, assert, asseverate, assure, aver, avouch, bear out, check up on, confirm, contend, corroborate, declare, double check, emphasize, predicate, profess, protest, punctuate, show, substantiate, swear, underline, underscore, vouch, warrant), ‏أعلن (advertise, advertize, announce, avow, bill, blare, celebrate, count, declare, denote, enunciate, gazette, portend, predicate, profess, promulgate, pronounce, protest, publicize, publish, put out, report, represent, rule, show, sound, state, usher, vote), ‏أذاع (bandy, blazon, break, broadcast, celebrate, circulate, cry, promulgate, propagate, publish, radio, transmit, vend), ‏ظهر (appear, arise, back, brighten up, bring out, come to light, declare, declassify, define, denote, develop, evidence, exercise, exhibit, express, feature, image, indicate, infer, loom, manifest, mark, note, occur, outcrop, parade, peep, play up, poke, pop up, produce, reveal, show, show up, spring, surface, turn up, walk), ‏شهر (give notoriety, illuminate, malign, month, pillory, slander, vilify), ‏دل (announce, betoken, bode, denote, designate, indicate, infer, promise, read, signify, speak). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съобщавам за (acquaint), разгласявам (delate, divulge, notify, peal, peddle, publicize, publish, reveal, sound), обявявам извънредно положение в, обявявам извън закона (outlaw), обявявам (advertise, advertize, announce, bill, declare, intimate, meld, post, promulgate, put up, vote), оповестявам (announce, bring out, give out, promulgate, publish), заявявам (affirm, allege, assert, aver, avow, declare, enounce, maintain, predicate, profess, protest, set out, state), показвам (demonstrate, denote, dial, disclose, display, evince, exhibit, give, indicate, manifest, present, protrude, read, register, show, show around, signify, stick, tell, trot, witness), известявам (advertise, advertize, advise, apprise, apprize, intimate, notify, post), издавам (betray, bring out, condemn, delate, denounce, disclose, divulge, emit, enact, give, give away, hand down, issue, leak, loose, produce, publish, put forth, put out, send forth, spill, stick out, throw out, utter), доказвам (argue, aver, demonstrate, establish, evidence, evince, manifest, prove, reason, show, substantiate, vindicate, witness). (various references)

Chinese 

宣告 (declare). (various references)

Czech

provolat, prohlásit (affirm, declare, enounce, pronounce, set out, state, vote), vyhlásit (announce, call, declare, manifest, promulgate, publish, set forth), veřejnì oznámit (advertise). (various references)

Dutch

uitvaardigen (issue, promulgate), proclameren (issue), afkondigen (issue, promulgate, publish, reveal). (various references)

Esperanto

proklami (issue). (various references)

Farsi 

علنااظهارداشتن , جارزدن (Blare, Blaze), اعلان کردن (Advertise, Announce). (various references)

Finnish

kuuluttaa (advertise, announce, declare, make known, publish the banns), julistaa (announce, declare). (various references)

French

proclamer. (various references)

Frisian

ôflêze (issue, read, read out), ôfkundigje (issue). (various references)

German

proklamieren (declare, issue), proklamiere. (various references)

Greek 

προκηρύσσω (ban). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"כריז (advertise, announce, assert, asseverate, declare, make public, pronounce), ל�"צ�"יר (affirm, asseverate, certify, declare, predicate, state, testify). (various references)

Hungarian

kinyilatkoztat (enounce, reveal, to asseverate), kikiált (outcry, to call, to cry, to proclaim, to shout out), kihirdet (annunciate, promulgate, sing out, to announce, to enunciate, to fulminate, to give out, to hammer a defaulter, to proclaim, to proscribe, to sound). (various references)

Indonesian

mengamkan (announce), mengabarkan (inform, to let know), mencanangkan (announce with, propagandize, tout), membeberkan (expand, explain, spread out, unfold). (various references)

Italian

proclamare (cry, declare, Herald, issue, publicise, publicize), pubblicare (advertise, announce, edit, give, give notice, issue, post, print, publish, redact, reveal). (various references)

Korean 

� 언하십시�" (Declare). (various references)

Manx

fogrey (announce, announcement, bill, declaration, declare, edict, herald, notice, notification, placard), fockley magh (blurt, declare, proclamation, profess, promulgate, promulgation, pronounce, pronouncement, pronunciation). (various references)

Maya

ka'ayt (to proclaim). (various references)

Papiamen

proklamá (issue). (various references)

Pig Latin

oclaimpray.(various references)

Portuguese

proclamar (acclaim, announce, annunciate, blazon, declare, denounce, herald, issue, preach, promulgate, pronounce, publish, voice). (various references)

Romanian

proclama (announce, bid, blazon, cry, declare, profess, publish, sound), vesti (announce, Herald, publish, ring, sound), interzice (ban, bar, disallow, enjoin, forbid, interdict, prohibit, proscribe, taboo, veto), declara (account, adjudge, avouch, classify, contract in, declare, enter, manifest, profess, pronounce, publish, remark, report, return, set forth, signify, sound, state, testify), califica (habilitate, label, Mark, qualify, style, term). (various references)

Russian 

объявлять (announce, annunciate, declare, declaring, enunciate, give out, meld, notify, promulgate, pronounce), обнародовать (manifest), запрещать (ban, cry down, disable, disallow, forbade, forbid, inhibit, interdict, prohibit, proscribe, suppress, thumb down, veto), провозглашать;объявлять, провозглашать (acclaim, declare, enunciate). (various references)

Scottish

glaodh (a cry, bird-lime, cry, glue, shout), gairm (a call, call, crow as a cock, proclamation, summon), éigh (a cry, cry, shout). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proklamovati, proglasiti (declare, enunciate, post), objaviti (advertise, advertize, annunciate, declare, give out, notify, promulgate, publicize, publish). (various references)

Spanish

proclamar (acclaim, blare, blaze, declaim, decoy, Herald, issue), promulgar (enact, issue, make public, promulgate), dar parte de (issue, report). (various references)

Swedish

utropa (call, call out, cry, cry out, ejaculate, exclaim, herald, proclaime), proklamera (proclaime). (various references)

Turkish

ilan etmek (acclaim, advertise, advertize, announce, annunciate, bill, blaze abroad, blazon abroad, blazon out, blow the whistle on, declare, enunciate, give out, noise about, noise abroad, post, preconize, pronounce, publicize, publish, tell the world, trumpet, trumpet forth), duyurmak (advertise, advertize, announce, annunciate, broadcast, Clarion, give forth, give out, give smth. publicity, noise abroad, notice, plead, pronounce, publish), bildirmek (acquaint, advise, affirm, announce, annunciate, communicate, declare, enunciate, give forth, give out, Herald, impart, indicate, inform, intimate, issue, let know, let smb. know, Lodge, notice, notify, offer, pass, pronounce, put up, report, say, serve notice, signal, signalize, state, tell, vote), beyan etmek (affirm, asseverate, attest, avow, be declaratory of, declare, manifest, predicate, return). (various references)

Ukrainian

свідчити (argue, attest, bear testimony, bear witness, depone, evidence, evince, give witness, homologate, militate, reveal, swear, tell, testate, testify, witness), оголошувати (announce, annunciate, bid, declare, enounce, enunciate, give out, notify, post, preconize, pronounce, usher in), оприлюднити (make public, promulgate, unveil), оповіщати (advertize, blazon), забороняти (bar, disallow, embar, enjoin, forbid, inhibit, interdict, prohibit, provide, suppress, taboo, tabu, veto), проголошувати (acclaim, air, declare, indict, noise). (various references)

calamus, calites, clamo, edicam, edicere, edicta, edicti, edictis, edictum, evangelizabat, evangelizans, evangelizante, evangelizantes, evangelizanti, evangelizantibus, evangelizantis, evangelizantium, evangelizare, evangelizarem, evangelizaret, evangelizas, evangelizassent, evangelizat, evangelizatum, evangelizatur, evangelizaverit, evangelizavero, evangelizaverunt, evangelizavi, evangelizavimus, evangelizavit, evangelizet, indicare, indicas, indicat, indicens, indices, indicet, indico, indictoaudientes, indixi, indixisset, indixit, indixitque, nuncupo, praeconor, praeconor, preconor, praedica, praedicabant, praedicabat, praedicabatur, praedicabis, praedicabitur, praedicabo, praedicabunt, praedicamus, praedicans, praedicant, praedicante, praedicantem, praedicantes, praedicantis, praedicare, praedicarem, praedicaret, praedicaretis, praedicari, praedicas, praedicasti, praedicat, praedicate, praedicator, praedicatum, praedicatur, praedicaturum, praedicatus, praedicaverim, praedicaverunt, praedicavi, praedicavimus, praedicavit, praedicem, praedicent, praedico, proclamabunt, proclamare, proclamastis, proclamate, proclamaverunt, pronuntiabit, pronuntiabo, pronuntiabunt, pronuntians, pronuntiansque, pronuntiavi, pronuntiet, pronuntio, renuntiare. (various references)

beodan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "proclaim": proclaimed, proclaimer, proclaimers, proclaiming, proclaims. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Proclaim" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bhrolcain, porclain, Procellaria, proclain, Procula, proculian, Proliant. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: picloram.

-1 letter: oilcamp.

-2 letters: caroli, clamor, copalm, lipoma, lorica, picaro, primal.

-3 letters: campi, campo, carol, carom, carpi, claim, clamp, claro, clomp, comal, copal, copra, coral, coria, cramp, crimp, limpa, macro, malic, micra, micro, milpa, moira, molar, moral, parol, pical, pilar, plica, polar, prima, primo.

-4 letters: amir, arco, aril, calm, calo, camp, capo, carl, carp, ciao, clam.

+1 letter: piclorams, proclaims.

+2 letters: complainer, micropylar, procambial, proclaimed, proclaimer.

+3 letters: allomorphic, circumpolar, complainers, dimercaprol, halomorphic, palindromic, problematic, proclaimers, proclaiming.

+4 letters: accomplisher, dimercaprols, incomparable, incomparably, metaphorical, microcapsule, microcephaly, nonempirical, parochialism, philharmonic, pictorialism, polarimetric, problematics, proclamation, protoplasmic, pyromaniacal, sarcoplasmic, semitropical.

+5 letters: accomplishers, allelomorphic, cephalometric, ceruloplasmin, comparability, comparatively, complimentary, compressional, demographical, lymphographic, microcapsules, microcephalic, microparticle, microphysical, microplankton, microscopical, morphemically, morphological, panoramically, parochialisms, petrochemical, pharmacologic, pharmacopeial, philharmonics, pictorialisms, polychromatic, problematical, proclamations, provincialism, recompilation, semiporcelain, thermoplastic, unproblematic, xerophthalmic.