Inflected forms: pro·claimed, pro·claim·ing, pro·claims 1. To announce officially and publicly; declare. See synonyms at announce. 2. To indicate conspicuously; make plain: wearing a button that proclaimed my choice for president.3. To praise; extol.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English proclamen, proclaimen (influenced by claimen, to claim), from Old French proclamer, from Latin prclmre : pr-, forward; see pro–1 + clmre, to cry out; see kel-2 in Appendix I.
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