The proclamation is ... The meanings of the word

As part of the Russian language, do not consider the lexical units that were borrowed a long time ago from the speech of other peoples, but so "accustomed" to a foreign linguistic environment, that now sometimes you do not immediately orient, Russian or foreign this word.

Lexum "proclamation" was actively used in the XIX century, and especially at the beginning of the last century, when the revolutionary moods were growing.

Primary importance

The word "proclamation" is in the literal translation from Latin "an appeal, a nationwide announcement." This is exactly the meaning that revolutionary leaflets bearing agitational nature and calling for some extraordinary actions had. Most often political.

Leaflet-proclamation

She could agitate for a strike, a demonstration, any other form of civil disobedience. In pre-revolutionary years, such printed or manuscript documents most often called for the overthrow of the autocracy. The agitation was published, as a rule, illegally, and their distribution threatened with punishment, arrest, often with exile.

History has preserved many episodes, when the reason for excluding students from the university was the ability to become a small proclamation. This is often described in fiction.

In the Great Patriotic term, the "proclamation" was no longer used. With this same inner content, he was replaced by a leaflet.

Other values

The word "proclamation" is also a lexical unit, close in the sense of the declaration, as well as a decree. Examples of its use in these values can serve as the names of the following historical "papers."

• Thus, in 1860, on behalf of Tsar Alexander II, Prince A.I. Baryatinsky proclaimed a proclamation, which officially bears his name. It solemnly proclaimed that the peoples of Chechnya and Dagestan were forgiven for their hostile actions during the war in the Caucasus.
• In 1862, Abraham Lincoln compiled and signed a document called the "Proclamation of Liberation ...", according to which slavery was abolished in the South of America.

In the XVIII-XIX centuries. The word in question was very widely used in the indicated meanings, where the proclamation is both an official appeal to the population (usually in writing), and a decree issued by the ruling elite.