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Definition of proclamatory - 1 dictionary result
pro·claim   (prō-klām', prə-)   
tr.v.   pro·claimed, pro·claim·ing, pro·claims

  1. To announce officially and publicly; declare. See Synonyms at announce.

  2. To indicate conspicuously; make plain: wearing a button that proclaimed my choice for president.

  3. To praise; extol.


[Middle English proclamen, proclaimen (influenced by claimen, to claim), from Old French proclamer, from Latin prōclāmāre : prō-, forward; see pro-1 + clāmāre, to cry out; see kelə-2 in Indo-European roots.]
pro·claim'er n., pro·clam'a·to'ry (prō-klām'ə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj.
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