The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divulge \Di*vulge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divulged; p. pr. & vb. n. Divulging.] [F. divulguer, L. divulgare; di- = dis- + vulgare to spread among the people, from vulgus the common people. See Vulgar.]
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To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret.
Divulge not such a love as mine.
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To indicate publicly; to proclaim. [R.]
God . . . marks The just man, and divulges him through heaven.
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To impart; to communicate.
Which would not be
To them [animals] made common and divulged.
--Milton.Syn: To publish; disclose; discover; uncover; reveal; communicate; impart; tell.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is divulged. vb. (present participle of divulge English)
Usage examples of "divulging".
By morning, Dutiful knew far more of my youthful excesses than I had ever planned on divulging to him.
But he accepted the confession nonetheless, hearing with mounting anger the skein of the Jesuit's sins: the pair of underpants he had stolen from Soutane that had, apparently, alerted her to the fact that her apartment had been searched, her subsequent entrapment of the priest in the Cours Saleya, his divulging everything he knew of the Forest of Swords, of who he was working for, including Dante's name.
The owl, arch and forbidding, was mute, but the macaw seemed on the verge of divulging a dark and ironic secret.
People are rotated from car to car whenever they stop, according to some system that no one is divulging to Randy, but that always situates him alone in a car with either Robin or Marcus Aurelius.
By saying this, Randy is divulging proprietary information to someone not authorized to hear it.
Randy is fully aware of the insanity of divulging secret business information to a woman solely for purposes of sexual self-titillation but it is in the nature of things, right now, that he doesn’t especially care.
He thought it best not to look at her while divulging, "My family thinks there's something going on between you and me, and they're giving me the raspberries.
Elizabeth pulled back and said, "I was afraid I was divulging things about you that weren)t entirely my right, but I thought that by making them sign the agreement "Say no more.
He also said that Jason had told him he’d like to “whip Misskelley’s ass” for divulging the trio’s involvement.
Without divulging what in those conversations he had found so persuasive, Martin wrote, “Their word was good enough for me.