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  • verb Present participle of promulge.

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Examples

  • We allude to the discussions of slavery at Lane Seminary, and the memorable expulsion of a number of the students for their persistence in promulging antislavery doctrines.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

  • Our policy must be -- and I hazard nothing in promulging it; nay, without this design and feeling, there would be a great deficiency of self-respect, pride of race, and love of country, and we might never expect to challenge the respect of nations -- _Africa for the African race and black men to rule them_.

    Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party Martin Robinson Delany

  • To troops out of me, out of the army, the war arising—they the tasks I have set promulging, 45

    So Long 1900

  • In either case we are led to the conclusion that, from the first, Muhammad had formed the plan of promulging a written book.

    The Koran (Al-Qur'an) 1854

  • "And be it further enacted, That the executive do take the most effectual and speedy measures for promulging this act to such tribe or tribes of Indians as they may think necessary."

    Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry 1817

  • “And be it further enacted, That the executive do take the most effectual and speedy measures for promulging this act to such tribe or tribes of Indians as they may think necessary.”

    Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry Wirt, William, 1772-1834 1817

  • Vicar over all _Spain_ for promulging his Decrees, and seeing them observed.

    Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684

  • We have, in the precedent verses, a narrative of the Israelites provoking sins, like a black cloud gathering over their heads, and here we have it breaking out into this dreadful thunder; a thunder much more dreadful than all those that sounded in their ears at the promulging of the law from mount Sinai: for if the terror of the Almighty was so great in giving the law, no wonder if it was much greater in pronouncing the curse.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823

  • But its author, promulging it thirty-five years ago, saw one “capital difficulty” in the way of realizing it, and he stated the difficulty thus: “The Public School for the people must rest upon the municipal organization of the country.

    Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

  • But its author, promulging it thirty-five years ago, saw one "capital difficulty" in the way of realizing it, and he stated the difficulty thus: "The Public

    Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886

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