Associations to the word «Proclaim»

Wiktionary

PROCLAIM, verb. To excitedly, verbosely and candidly describe.
PROCLAIM, verb. To announce or declare.

Dictionary definition

PROCLAIM, verb. Declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles; "He was proclaimed King".
PROCLAIM, verb. State or announce; "`I am not a Communist,' he exclaimed"; "The King will proclaim an amnesty".
PROCLAIM, verb. Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President".
PROCLAIM, verb. Praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne