PROCLAMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proclamation mean? 

• PROCLAMATION (noun)
  The noun PROCLAMATION has 2 senses:

1. a formal public statement

2. the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice

  Familiarity information: PROCLAMATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROCLAMATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A formal public statement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

announcement; annunciation; declaration; proclamation

Context example:

a declaration of independence

Hypernyms ("proclamation" is a kind of...):

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proclamation"):

edict (a formal or authoritative proclamation)

promulgation (the official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the law or ordinance is put into effect)

Derivation:

proclaim (declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

proclamation; promulgation

Context example:

his promulgation of the policy proved to be premature

Hypernyms ("proclamation" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Derivation:

proclaim (state or announce)

proclaim (declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles)

 Context examples 

The people had notice, by proclamation, of my design to visit the town.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She had a written character, as large as a proclamation; and, according to this document, could do everything of a domestic nature that ever I heard of, and a great many things that I never did hear of.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The emperor also confers on him some public mark of his favour, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the whole city.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But a proclamation was soon issued, to forbid it upon pain of death.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

As the news of my arrival spread through the kingdom, it brought prodigious numbers of rich, idle, and curious people to see me; so that the villages were almost emptied; and great neglect of tillage and household affairs must have ensued, if his imperial majesty had not provided, by several proclamations and orders of state, against this inconveniency.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)