Proclamation in example sentence

The heralds finished their proclamation with their usual cry of"Largesse, largesse, gallant knights!"and gold and silver pieces were showered on them from the galleries, it being a high point of chivalry to exhibit liberality towards those whom the age accounted at once the secretaries and the historians of honour.

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So, in fact, our proclamation is going to parliament next month.

Epideictic, or demonstrative, rhetoric makes a proclamation about the present situation, as in wedding speeches.

In March, a proclamation forbid Japanese Americans from changing their residency, trapping them in military zones.

Only later would I see the dresses also as a proclamation: that in your dim kitchen, your laundry, your bleak concrete yard, what you revealed of yourself was a fabulation; your real sensual nature, veiled in those sexless vestments, was utterly your dominion.

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