Word Meanings - PROCLAIM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace. To proclaim liberty to the captives. Isa. lxi. 1. For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Shak.

Additional info about word: PROCLAIM

1. To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace. To proclaim liberty to the captives. Isa. lxi. 1. For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Shak. Throughout the host proclaim A solemn council forthwith to be held. Milton. 2. To outlaw by public proclamation. I heard myself proclaimed. Shak. Syn. -- To publish; promulgate; declare; announce. See Announce.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROCLAIM)

• Advertise
• Publish
• inform
• advise
• circulate
• announce
• notify
• proclaim
• promulge
• Announce
• Declare
• propound
• give notice
• enunciate
• advertise
• publish
• report
• make known
• give out
• reveal
• herald
• intimate
• promulgate
• Betoken
• Teach
• indicate
• presage
• augur
• portend
• foreshow
• signify
• forebode
• evidence
• declare
• manifest
• involve
• imply
• Disseminate
• Spread
• propagate
• preach
• scatter
• Profess
• avow
• acknowledge
• own
• confess
• pretend
• lay claim to

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROCLAIM)

• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify

Related words: (words related to PROCLAIM)

• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• PUBLISH
  Etym: 1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict. Published was the bounty of her name. Chaucer. The unwearied sun, from day to day,
• CONFESSER
  One who makes a confession.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• INFORMOUS
  Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne.
• INTIMATE
  corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate
• HERALD
  An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. 2. In the Middle Ages, the officer
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• PUBLISHER
  One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine. For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretense. Shak.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• CONFESSIONALISM
  An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
• MISREPORT
  To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• REPUBLISH
  To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive by re Subsecquent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republished his will. Blackstone.