promulgation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen
noun the official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the law or ordinance is put into effect
noun the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice

From Middle French promulgation, from Latin prōmulgātiō.

Gregory XIII., promulgation of calendar by, 4 n. Greenland, Dr. Henry, 94, 94 n., 160. — Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680, Jasper Danckaerts
The other ill-fated victims of a sanguinary police underwent their sentence on the 25th of June, two days after the promulgation of the pardon of their associates. — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
So far from the definition in 1854 being a tyrannical infliction on the Catholic world, it was received every where on its promulgation with the greatest enthusiasm. — Apologia pro vita sua : $b being a history of his religious opinions, John Henry Newman

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