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Verb: proclaim  pru'kleym or prow'kleym
  1. Declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles
    "He was proclaimed King"
     
  2. State or announce
    "The King will proclaim an amnesty";
    - exclaim, promulgate
     
  3. Affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
    "The speech proclaimed the fitness of the candidate to be President";
    - predicate
     
  4. Praise, glorify, or honour
    "proclaim the virtues of one's children";
    - laud, extol, exalt, glorify

Derived forms: proclaims, proclaiming, proclaimed

Type of: assert, asseverate, declare, entitle, maintain, praise, pronounce, title