What's the difference between bede and proclaim?

Bede


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pray; also, to offer; to proffer.
  • (n.) A kind of pickax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From St Bede's college , a Roman Catholic grammar school, he went to study for two years at Ushaw College in Durham, a seminary for trainee priests, and then at Birmingham Polytechnic, now Birmingham City University , where in 1976 he received a certificate in residential care of children and young people.
  • (2) "Do I really expect Americans to sit down with Adam Bede or Clarissa after all the professional and domestic hurly-burly of their day?
  • (3) You might just as well find a sharp contrast between the sexual standards in Shakespeare and the Venerable Bede.
  • (4) Those delights include a colony of puffins on the beautifully named Coquet Island ; powdery sand on a beach straight outta Bermuda via the North Sea, and not another soul to share it with; ancient fragments from the age of the Venerable Bede; craggy castles lorded over by the Percys of Northumberland; tight-knit towns of huddled stone cottages and Norman churches; and, best of all, Spurelli’s ice-cream parlour in Amble.
  • (5) CV Date of birth 27 October 1949 Education St Bede's Grammar, Bradford Career Joined Yorkshire Co-op as a management trainee in the food division, which included a stint stacking shelves.

Proclaim


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace.
  • (v. t.) To outlaw by public proclamation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With respect to Sir Jimmy, those who proclaim the age of the train rarely get it right.
  • (2) President Obama on Thursday proclaimed to be against endless wars, even as he announced that the US will continue to wage one.
  • (3) The soiree's proclaimed objective is to build a "caucus of common sense" with Senate Republicans.
  • (4) The site's manifesto proclaims that "the goal … is to break down the wall of omertà and silence that protects the mafia … We call on all citizens: 'if you know something, say something'".
  • (5) Everywhere I go the people proclaim me the president of Congo."
  • (6) Cocaine was considered incapable of producing dependence in 1980 but was recently proclaimed the drug of greatest national health concern.
  • (7) When it was first licensed for the European food market six years ago, baobab was – with a certain inevitability –proclaimed a superfood to rival quinoa, blueberries and kale.
  • (8) We need to show the reality we are living in.” The protesters carried banners, proclaiming: “Obama’s trip to Cuba isn’t for fun.
  • (9) He was a self-proclaimed cleric, though he had no formal qualifications or any evidence to support his claims.
  • (10) Like Demirtaş, Erdoğan proclaimed his desire to allow greater freedom and self-expression not just for his own constituency, but for all neglected citizens of the republic – including the Kurds, who in the mid-2000s voted for him in large numbers.
  • (11) Rebels had previously claimed they lacked weapons to strike at that range, but a spokesman for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic told AFP its fighters had shot down the two aircraft.
  • (12) Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 from the rostrum – shortly before ordering the expansion of the square.
  • (13) Republican convention live: roll call vote to officially nominate Trump begins Read more Crossing the threshold of 1,237 votes, Trump officially became the Republican party’s nominee for president, as the stage in Cleveland was illuminated with a message proclaiming: “Over the Top”.
  • (14) There is, scientists proclaim, a crisis in biomedical research.
  • (15) Others are taking the rally at face value and planning to turn up with banners proclaiming themselves part of the reasonable majority, liberal or conservative, against the particular brand of insanity that has swept America since Barack Obama entered the White House.
  • (16) But, as the church itself proclaims, redemption is always possible for a sinner.
  • (17) His supporters sport T-shirts proclaiming "100% Zulu Boy".
  • (18) Instead they said their role was to prevent weapons reaching the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic".
  • (19) Sometimes these slogans proclaim the wearer's enjoyment of football ("Keep calm and play football!")
  • (20) August 1995 After poorly contested elections, the EPRDF swept to power; the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was proclaimed, and Meles became Ethiopia's first prime minister.