Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of publishing or proclaiming; public exposure.
- n. An official notice made by a town clerk or other civil or clerical official of an intended marriage; a publishing of the banns of marriage.
Wiktionary
- n. The act or process of making publicly known; publication.
- n. US A public notice of intended marriage, required by the laws of some states.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of making publicly known; publication.
- n. U.S. A public notice of intended marriage, required by the laws of some States.
Etymologies
- publish + -ment (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We will let you all know if we get in the top three, thank you for the publishment.”
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“So, when different marriage dates appear in the IGI, recorded in different towns, often one of the records is a date of publishment or certification of intentions.”
“So, in Greenwood a publishment — a publication of intentions — was entered on the books:”
“Just wondering, since in my best fantasies of eventual publishment my daydreams become nightmares of taxes, insurance, and the evil IRS boojums.”
“It is therefore with an expression of regret that the Riksdag has learned from the publishment of the Protocol drawn up in Joint Swedish and”
“Nouns formed from verbs by adding the French suffix - ment, as publishment, releasement, requirement.”
“Fowler, in 1850, cited publishment and releasement with no apparent thought that they were uncouth.”
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“After a while I got one of the students to write a publishment, and sent it to the Rev.Mr. M.; he did not read it the next Sabbath, as was customary, and I went to see him.”
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time
“Elvira being examined apart, in like manner, declared that her intended husband's impatience and her own dislike to the formality of a publishment, had led them to avoid the usual mode and forms of marriage.”
“After a while I got one of the students to write a publishment, and sent it to the Rev.Mr. M.; he did not”
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. Written by Himself
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