proclaim

Meaning

  1. To announce or declare.
  2. To make [something] the subject of an official proclamation bringing it within the scope of emergency powers

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
pro‧claim
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɹəʊˈkleɪm/
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).

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