Proclamation has 4 syllables and the stress is on the third syllable.
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| 1. | In the end, Washington did issue a proclamation, the first presidential proclamation ever, calling for a national “day of public thanksgiving and prayer.” | |
| 2. | Newspapers printed the proclamation. | |
| 3. | Accordingly they resolved to begin the war without the usual forms of proclamation, and instructed their naval commander to launch ten galleys immediately, and ravage the coasts of the enemy. | |
| 4. | Critics had two main concerns with the idea of a presidential proclamation to declare a national Thanksgiving. | |
| 5. | When he issued the proclamation, he sent copies of that to governors of each of the states, 13 at the time, and asked them to call a national Thanksgiving on the day that Washington specified, the last Thursday of November,” says Melanie Kirkpatrick, author of “Thanksgiving: The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience.” | |
| 6. | After Madison, no U.S. president issued a Thanksgiving proclamation until Abraham Lincoln. | |
| 7. | Abraham Lincoln issued a Thanksgiving proclamation in the middle of the U.S. Civil War in 1863 in an effort to unify the country. | |
| 8. | The President, who spoke from the Oval Office, stopped short of resorting to an even more dramatic measure urged by some members of Congress: a national emergency proclamation under the 1976 National Emergencies Act. |