Literary notes about Proclaim (AI summary)
The word "proclaim" emerges in literature as a powerful verbal marker for declaring truths, judgments, or directives with public force. Authors deploy it across genres to signal official proclamations—such as legislative edicts or royal commands [1, 2, 3]—while it also emerges in personal declarations of conviction or criticism [4, 5, 6]. It frequently connotes an authoritative accentuation of ideas, whether in uplifting religious invocations [7, 8, 9] or in biting irony that unmasks societal hypocrisy [10, 11]. Through its versatile use, "proclaim" not only designates the act of announcing but also heightens the emotional and rhetorical impact of the uttered words [12, 13].
- He was the first to proclaim the law abolishing manumissions.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo - Then he bade his herald Sir Hugh de Mowbray stand forth and proclaim the rules governing the game.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle - Proclaim ye this among the nations: Prepare war, raise up the strong: let them come, let all the men of war come up.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - , then, he said; I proclaim that justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - I say to you that I will proclaim it to you, whether you like it or not; nay, that the less you like it, the more I will proclaim it to you.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens - For a man to proclaim himself an anarchist in France, three years ago, was to proclaim himself a madman—he could not be in his right mind.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain - Lord , Whom the hosts of cherubim in songs and hymns with praise continually proclaim, do Thou upon us eternally have mercy .
— from Prayers of the Middle Ages: Light from a Thousand Years - To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn: 61:3.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Speak to the people, and proclaim in the hearing of all: Whosoever is fearful and timorous, let him return.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - In vain do I redouble the violence of the language in which I proclaim my heterodoxies.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw - Lear's great speeches in his madness proclaim it like the curses of Timon on life and man.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley - let him proclaim my thoughts in the face of the congregation.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - If I do please I am happy, but to proclaim my highest convictions of truth is always my sole object.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) by Ida Husted Harper
