proclaimant

English

Etymology 1

From proclaim +‎ -ant.

Noun

proclaimant (plural proclaimants)

1. Someone who or something that proclaims.
   • 1830, The Budget of Truth:

     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.

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights:

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

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

     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.

   • 2001, Franz Gress, Reforming Governance, →ISBN:

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

Etymology 2

pro- +‎ claimant

Adjective

proclaimant (comparative more proclaimant, superlative most proclaimant)

1. Alternative form of pro-claimant
   • 1956, Daily Labor Report - Issues 64-84, page 64:

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

     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.

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

     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.