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A public statement about something that is happening or going to happen
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promulgation
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Middle French promulgation (14c.), from Latin promulgationem (nominative promulgatio ) "a public announcement," noun of action from past participle stem of promulgare (see promulgate ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Promulgation \Pro`mul*ga"tion\, n. [L. promulgatio: cf. F. promulgation.] The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel. --South.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Promulgation is the formal proclamation or declaration that a new statutory or administrative law is enacted after its final approval . In some jurisdictions , this additional step is necessary before the law can take effect. After a new law is approved, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a public statement about something that is happening or going to happen; "the announcement appeared in the local newspaper"; "the promulgation was written in English" [syn: announcement ] the official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of promulgate or announcing something, especially a proclamation announcing a new law.
Usage examples of promulgation.
At Oxford, since the promulgation of the Laudian statutes, the duty has been discharged by the Vice-Chancellor.
Out of regard for me the count delayed the promulgation of the decree for a week, so that the people of Udine heard the news from Venice before it had reached Trieste, and everybody thought that the Venetian Government had achieved its ends by bribery.
They affirmed, that if the Being, who is the same through all eternity, had designed to abolish those sacred rites which had served to distinguish his chosen people, the repeal of them would have been no less clear and solemn than their first promulgation: that, instead of those frequent declarations, which either suppose or assert the perpetuity of the Mosaic religion, it would have been represented as a provisionary scheme intended to last only to the coming of the Messiah, who should instruct mankind in a more perfect mode of faith and of worship: ^15 that the Messiah himself, and his disciples who conversed with him on earth, instead of authorizing by their example the most minute observances of the Mosaic law, ^16 would have published to the world the abolition of those useless and obsolete ceremonies, without suffering Christianity to remain during so many years obscurely confounded among the sects of the Jewish church.
The Holy Alliance was directly responsible for the promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine, and the Monroe Doctrine of America for the Americans has a very distinct bearing upon your own life.
As the time for his marriage approached, however, he had in a measure given up these exploits, and strove, by his demeanour, to make his acquaintances forget several remarkable scandals concerning his private life, for the promulgation of which he once cared little.