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proclamation

Constitutional mode of declaring the will of the chief executive of a state. All British proclamations are made by the monarch as an order in council and must pass under the great seal. For the most part proclamations can be binding on the subject only in so far as they are based on the law of the land.

Proclamations are principally used for declarations of war, peace, or state of emergency, for proroguing, dissolving, and summoning Parliament, and on ceremonial occasions such as the accession of the monarch.
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Discussing the matter with him, a mere boy, I should be in perfect safety; for he would know nothing of the Proclamation of the Council; whereas I could not feel sure that my Sons -- so greatly did their patriotism and reverence for the Circles predominate over mere blind affection -- might not feel compelled to hand me over to the Prefect, if they found me seriously maintaining the seditious heresy of the Third Dimension.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
JUPITER ISSUED a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the handsomest.
Fables by Aesop View in context
Seven times, as the successive monarchs of Britain ascended the throne, the trumpet peal of proclamation had been heard by those who sat in our venerable chair.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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