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UK
/pɹˌɒklɐmˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ˌpɹɑkɫəˈmeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌpɹɑkɫəˈmeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice
his promulgation of the policy proved to be premature -
a formal public statement
the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war
a declaration of independence
How To Use proclamation In A Sentence
- Restrictions governing building in London were first issued by royal proclamation.
- She belongs to a family descended from free Blacks those released from slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
- He fulfilled his duties conscientiously, but his support for the proclamation of the district as a city lost him his seat in 1950.
- Special courts under such proclamations tried and punished those who transgressed against the orders of the military authority.
- To depreciate ( currency, for example ) by official proclamation or by rumor.
- All princesses wishing to apply must respond to this proclamation and attend the initiation ball which is to be held in a sennight on the eve of the Festival of the Roses.
- Eager hints would become rhapsodic proclamations; backstairs whispers would be babbled aloud in the corridors of the complex.
- The psalmist had adapted this picture to refer to the spiritual offerings of prayer, praise and proclamation.
- Americans who took passage on belligerent ships after such a proclamation had been issued would do so at their own risk. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
- The proclamation complained that tobacco tended to corrupt men's bodies and manners, and that to cultivate tobacco was ‘to abuse and misemploy the soil of this fruitful kingdom’.