proclaim

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To announce or declare.

   Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

2. 2
   verb

   To make (something) the subject of an official proclamation bringing it within the scope of emergency powers.

   Were those baronies proclaimed at the time you were in them? –Some of them are; the barony of Duhallow is proclaimed.

3. 3
   verb

   praise, glorify, or honor

4. 4
   verb

   state or announce

5. 5
   verb

   declare formally

6. 6
   verb

   affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of

Etymology

From Middle English proclamen, proclaime, from Old French proclamer, from Latin prōclāmō, prōclāmāre, from prō- (“forth”) + clāmō (“to shout, cry out”). Spelling altered by influence of claim, from the same Latin source (clāmō).