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[tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#m2) ### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#x1) - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation aimed to free enslaved people. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#x3) - A proclamation announced the new queen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#x4) - The town crier shouted the proclamation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#x5) - Her speech was a proclamation of hope. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/#x6) - A royal proclamation was issued to this effect. [tree →](https://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 Jewish tradition It means a loud public announcement, such as the horn blown on the day of atonement or Aaron's call before the calf. In the Prophets and Writings it is also a message sent out by God or a king, as Jonah to Nineveh or the call to gather in Jerusalem. **Interpretation.** The horn blast on Yom Kippur in the Jubilee year proclaimed freedom throughout the land. Jonah's proclamation is read as a call to repent, which Nineveh heeded. ### Examples - And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said: 'To-morrow shall be a feast to the LORD.' (Torah EXO.32.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/proclamation/#x1) - Then shalt thou make proclamation with the blast of the horn on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement shall ye make proclamation with the horn throughout all your land. (Torah LEV.25.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/proclamation/#x2) - And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no manner of servile work; it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. (Torah LEV.23.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/proclamation/#x3) - 'Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and make unto it the proclamation that I bid thee.' (Prophets JON.3.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/proclamation/#x4) - And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem; (Writings EZR.10.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/proclamation/#x5) - And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness. (Writings 2CH.24.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/proclamation/#x6) ### Note Countable. From the verb «proclaim». Spelling trap: proclaim has «ai», but proclamation has just «a». ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «proclamation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proclamation/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«proclamation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/proclamation.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «proclamation» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/proclamation/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«proclamation» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/proclamation.html) on Mova free.