Sentence:  Only in its final scene , where Beatie Bryant ( Mary Doyle ) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual lover and <WSD>proclaims</WSD> her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch for most of the first two and one-half acts . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of