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# proclamation

«proclamation» in Mova's school dictionary: **An official public announcement, especially from a king…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a proclamation, proclamations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An official public announcement, especially from a king, queen, president or government. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#m1)

2) A clear, strong public statement of a belief or idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons: royal proclamations, the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) by Abraham Lincoln, and the Proclamation of the Irish Republic (1916). In stories, a herald reads out the king's proclamation in the town square.

### examples

- The king's proclamation was read in the market square. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#x1)
- Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation aimed to free enslaved people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#x2)
- The 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic was read outside the GPO in Dublin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#x3)
- A proclamation announced the new queen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#x4)
- The town crier shouted the proclamation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#x5)
- Her speech was a proclamation of hope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#x6)
- A royal proclamation was issued to this effect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#x7)

### note

Countable. From the verb «proclaim». Spelling trap: proclaim has «ai», but proclamation has just «a».

### In the corpora

- ['Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and make unto it the proclamation that I bid thee.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.30/)
- [And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.248/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «proclamation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.