proclaimant

plural proclaimants

1. Someone who or something that proclaims.

   At times, even the evidence offered by proclaimants of devolution is either wrong or fantastic.

   2001, Franz Gress, Reforming Governance, →ISBN

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   This cannot mean old Jerusalem, for there the hour of worship is past, but the new Jerusalem, or gospel, which has never been without proclaimants, and never will be, both in heaven and earth.

   1830, The Budget of Truth

   I trembled lest he should send me to call her; but I was spared the pain of being the first proclaimant of her flight.

   1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

   Epilepsy is not, however, the only, and perhaps not even the most frequent, sequel to night-terrors in children. An attack of the last is onlv the loud proclaimant of the neurotic temperament in its subject, and there is no doubt that other neuroses, such as hysteria, chorea, migraine, insanity, somnambulism, and the like, play a large part in the after-histories as well as epilepsy.

   1896, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences - Volume 111, page 162

comparative more proclaimant · superlative most proclaimant

1. alternativeAlternative form of pro-claimant.

   Physicians were chosen who were outstanding in their fields and served either as professors or chiefs of hospital services but who were not known as prodefendent or proclaimant doctors.

   1956, International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions, Workmen's Compensation Problems

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   He further asserts that the bill is not all proclaimant in that it completely rules out common law suits against employers arising out of the employment of minors or the violation of safety standards.

   1956, Daily Labor Report - Issues 64-84, page 64

   It is a nonadversarial, informal system that Congress designed to favor veterans and their dependents. The cornerstone of this proclaimant process is VA's obligation to assist claimants in obtaining the evidence necessary to substantiate their claims.

   2009, Clearinghouse Review - Volume 43, Issues 1-8, page 258