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Proclaimer

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pro·claim  (pr-klm, pr-)
tr.v. 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.
[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 Indo-European roots.]
pro·claimer n.
pro·clama·tory (pr-klm-tôr, -tr) adj.


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And when he hastily looked around and stood up, behold, there stood the soothsayer beside him, the same whom he had once given to eat and drink at his table, the proclaimer of the great weariness, who taught: "All is alike, nothing is worth while, the world is without meaning, knowledge strangleth.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
Now had the great Proclaimer, with a voice More awful than the sound of trumpet, cried Repentance, and Heaven's kingdom nigh at hand To all baptized.
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