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Proclaim

verb

(past & past part. proclaimed; pres. part. proclaiming)

Declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles.

State or announce. Synonyms: exclaim, promulgate. "The King will proclaim an amnesty"

Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of. Synonym: predicate.

Praise, glorify, or honor. Synonyms: exalt, extol, glorify, laud. "Glorify one's spouse's cooking"

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"Proclaim" Quotes from Famous Books

... steeple of the old State-House was a bell which had fortunately upon it the line "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." It was rung by the old man in charge, though he had lacked faith up to that moment in Congress. He believed that Congress would not pass the resolution and adopt the Declaration ...

— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye

... Such as these, are still. Minor apparatus, hopper of the mill, Beetle at the candle, Or a fife's small fame, Maintain by accident That they proclaim. ...

— Poems: Three Series, Complete • Emily Dickinson

... first trial, they found liberty was an excellent thing, and they resolved to constitute themselves forthwith into a republic. But it seemed that Monaco was far too extensive a territory to proclaim itself, after the example of France, a republic one and indivisible; so the wise men of the country, who had already formed themselves into a national assembly, came to the conclusion that Monaco should ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various

... served as [48] a hired shepherd, or hidden himself under the cowl in a cloister; and Raphael, as if at work on choir-book or missal, still applies symbolical gilding for natural sunlight. It is as if he wished to proclaim amid newer lights—this scholar who never forgot a lesson—his loyal pupilage to Perugino, and retained still something of medieval stiffness, of the monastic thoughts also, that were born and lingered in places like Borgo San Sepolcro or Citta di Castello. Chef-d'oeuvre! ...

— Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater

... nations less blessed with that freedom which is power than ourselves are advancing with gigantic strides in the career of public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it not be to cast away the bounties of Providence and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority? In the course of the year now drawing ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

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