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promulgation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun promulgation has 3 senses
- promulgation(n = noun.communication) announcement - a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen; "the announcement appeared in the local newspaper"; "the promulgation was written in English" is a kind of statement
- promulgation(n = noun.communication) Array - the official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the law or ordinance is put into effect; Array is a kind of announcement, annunciation, declaration, proclamation
- promulgation(n = noun.act) proclamation - the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice; "his promulgation of the policy proved to be premature" is a kind of act, deed, human action, human activity
has particulars: advisory, banns, handout, press release, release, notice, program, programme, wanted notice, wanted poster, annunciation
Derived form verb promulgate1
Derived forms verb promulgate2, verb promulgate1
Derived forms verb promulgate2, verb promulgate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
promulgation, n. [L. promulgatio: cf. F. promulgation.].
The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel. South. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
promulgation
Publication
N publication, public announcement, promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento, circulation, indiction, edition, hue and cry, publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype, vox populi, report, the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily, telegraphy, publisher, imprint, circular, circular letter, manifesto, advertisement, ad, placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster, notice, published, current, in circulation, public, notorious, flagrant, arrant, open, trumpet-tongued, encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory, exoteric, publicly, in open court, with open doors, Int, Oyez!, O yes!, notice!, notice is hereby given, this is to give, these are to give notice, nomina stultorum parietibus haerent, semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.
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