a formal public statement; " the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war"; " a declaration of independence"

The act of proclaiming; official or general notice; publication.

That which is proclaimed, publicly announced, or officially declared; a published ordinance; as, the proclamation of a king; a Thanksgiving proclamation.

An official announcement to the public; the thing announced.

The act of proclaiming: official notice given to the public.

Public official announcement.

The act of proclaiming.

That which is proclaimed.

Publication by authority, official notice.

The suppressed proclamation doubtless offered at least as much. – Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Thomas Davis Commentator: T. W. Rolleston

For as soon as a proclamation was made of a pardon, the greater part openly deserted him. – Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

Senor, all the negros on this island have already been set free, by His Excellency's proclamation this very morning. – Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

I'll use you to help me get up my Proclamation. – The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 1 by Robert H. Newell

You mean in this proclamation? – John March, Southerner by George W. Cable

Having in view Von Kronhelm's proclamation- which sentenced to death all who, not being in uniform, fired upon German troops- they decided to teach the unfortunate populace a lesson. – The Invasion by William Le Queux

" Savary, then, has at length seen a copy of the English newspapers which published this proclamation," he said. – NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER by L. Muhlbach

President Taft signing the proclamation making Arizona the forty- eighth State of the Union, at the White House, February 14, 1912. The constitution of Arizona was attacked in Congress and opposed by President Taft on account of the provision for the recall of judges. – History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6) by E. Benjamin Andrews

When she repeated this soon after in a proclamation, she added that these things must shortly be ordered by common consent. – A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

However that may have been, we hear nothing of him until after Mary's proclamation, when he too was imprisoned, but not in that part of the Tower with Lady Jane. – Ten Girls from History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

The only dignified course was to act up to his recent proclamation that the time had come for every Frenchman of spirit to conquer or die. – The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) by John Holland Rose

This proclamation created a great deal of interest and inquiry, and finally led to a considerable number of New England farmers settling in different parts of the Province, Chignecto getting a good share of them. – The-Chignecto-Isthmus-and-its-first-settlers by Trueman, Howard

Alva had contracted an enormous amount of debt, both public and private, in Amsterdam, and now caused a proclamation to be issued that all persons having demands upon him were to present their claims on a certain day. – By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic by G.A. Henty

In the reign of Mary there was issued a proclamation limiting and prohibiting the slaughter of deer in the Forest on account of their growing scarcity. – In the Border Country by W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett

But see how he guards his proclamation of self- reliance as the guide of mankind. – The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

For if this formation means the formal proclamation or the recognition by other States, it surely does pre- exist. – The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

Seen Jeff Thompson's last proclamation? – Rodney The Partisan by Harry Castlemon

What is doing about the proclamation there? – The Hour and the Man An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

No name was mentioned in the proclamation, but Burr knew his plot was discovered. – This Country Of Ours by H. E. Marshall Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

Every word of the proclamation, when repeated in the distance as when spoken under his window, had clearly reached Numerian's ears. – Antonina by Wilkie Collins