单词 | proclamatory |
释义 | proclamatoryadj. 1. That proclaims or makes public announcement. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [adjective] > announcing or proclaiming nunciativea1425 nunciatory1576 renunciative1622 proclamatory1635 denunciatory1726 denouncing1747 announcing1789 annunciating1835 trumpeting1850 1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 135 Hee uttered it, voce magna, with a proclamatory voice. 1785 W. Hutchinson Hist. & Antiq. Durham I. 284 He..received the metropolitan's letters proclamatory accordingly. 1830 Westm. Rev. Oct. 452 The honourable..gentleman would of course make a speech declaratory and proclamatory of his disinterestedness. 1884 St. James's Gaz. 1 May 8/1 The thunder of the proclamatory cannon. 1937 R. H. Sherard Bernard Shaw vi. 68 He had set out to depict Wilde..as a pervert proud and proclamatory of his abnormality. 1999 J. Davies Death, Burial & Rebirth Introd. 18 Title to land-possession or to social status are safeguarded by proclamatory ritual. 2. Of, relating to, resembling, or of the nature of a proclamation. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [adjective] annunciative1616 annunciatory1790 proclamatory1843 1843 Times 11 Feb. 4/4 To show what that animus was, he reads entire a well-intended and well-timed, though somewhat proclamatory, letter. 1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. 90 I wrote..a short notice in the fly-leaf of my pocket-book, setting forth, in proclamatory style, ‘who I was, and what was to be done with my body, in case it should be found’. 1882 T. Hardy Two on Tower III. iv. 55 To make due preparation for a wedding of ordinary publicity..with..a bonfire, and other of those proclamatory accessories. 1943 Times 28 Oct. 3/4 Mussolini was stated to have delivered a ‘proclamatory’ speech in which he outlined the principles on which the Italian armed forces are to be rebuilt. 2004 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 11 July c5 Elijah professes his faith in a proclamatory fashion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1635 |
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