Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as promulgator.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who promulges or publishes what was before unknown.

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  • noun One who promulges or publishes what was before unknown.

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Examples

  • ” Probably there ran through every vein and current of the Scotchman’s blood something that warm’d up to this kind of trait and character above aught else in the world, and which makes him in my opinion the chief celebrater and promulger of it in literature—more than Plutarch, more than Shakspere.

    Carlyle from American Points of View. Specimen Days 1892

  • Probably there ran through every vein and current of the Scotchman's blood something that warm'd up to this kind of trait and character above aught else in the world, and which makes him in my opinion the chief celebrater and promulger of it in literature -- more than Plutarch, more than Shakspere.

    Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

  • Probably there ran through every vein and current of the Scotchman's blood something that warm'd up to this kind of trait and character above aught else in the world, and which makes him in my opinion the chief celebrater and promulger of it in literature -- more than Plutarch, more than Shakspere.

    Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855

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