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 →

2) A clear, strong public statement of a belief or idea. tree →

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 →
• Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation aimed to free enslaved people. tree →
• The 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic was read outside the GPO in Dublin. tree →
• A proclamation announced the new queen. tree →
• The town crier shouted the proclamation. tree →
• Her speech was a proclamation of hope. tree →
• A royal proclamation was issued to this effect. tree →

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.'
• And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «proclamation» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.