Promulgation

Definition: Promulgation

Promulgation

Noun

1. A public statement about something that is happening or going to happen; "the announcement appeared in the local newspaper".

2. The official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the law or ordinance is put into effect.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "promulgation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Etymology: Promulgation \Pro`mul*ga"tion\, noun. [Latin expression promulgatio: compare to the French expression promulgation.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Promulgation

Publication

Noun: publication; public announcement; promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento; circulation, indiction, edition; hue and cry.

Crosswords: Promulgation

French (enactment, promulgation, publication).

Books

• Das notwendige Wissen über die Verschiedengeschlechtlichkeit und den Dauercharakter der Ehe in Kanonistik und Rechtsprechung von der Reformation bis zur Promulgation des CIC (1517-1917) : rechtshistorische Untersuchung (reference)

• James Jackson Putnam, from neurology to psychoanalysis : a study of the reception and promulgation of Freudian psychoanalytic theory in America, 1895-1918 (reference)

• La Quatrième République : bilan trente ans après la promulgation de la Constitution du 27 octobre 1946 : actes du colloque de Nice, les 20, 21 et 22 janvier 1977 (reference)

• Promulgation of Universal Peace (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Notwithstanding the stipulations of Section V of Part X (Economic Clauses) of the present Treaty, all contracts made before the date of the promulgation in Alsace-Lorraine of the French decree of November 30, 1918, between Alsace-Lorrainers (whether individuals or juridical persons) or others resident in Alsace-Lorraine on the one part and the German Empire or German States and their nationals resident in Germany on the other part, the execution of which has been suspended by the Armistice or by subsequent French legislation, shall be maintained. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The recent promulgation of the Competition Act, regulating all aspects of economic activity in South Africa with a few exceptions, will no doubt have a profound effect upon franchise agreements and needs to be understood. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

In October the Moroccan Bar Association also called for the promulgation of a new public liberties law. (references)

Oman

Until the promulgation of the Basic Charter, the Government did not have a policy on refugees or a tradition of harboring stateless or undocumented aliens. (references)

Brunei

Prior to the promulgation of this new law, there were no laws specifically restricting freedom of speech and freedom of the press; however, the Government used its authority to protect public safety, morals, health, and domestic security to restrict these freedoms. (references)

Discrimination

Brazil

A 1997 law provides prison penalties and fines for racist acts, including promulgation of pejorative terms for ethnic or racial groups, use of the swastika, or acts of discrimination based on sex, religion, age, or ethnic origin. (references)

Economic History

Guatemala

Public participation in the promulgation of regulations is rare, and there is no consistent legislative oversight of administrative rule making. (references)

Indonesia

This work has already assisted in the promulgation of new legal frameworks for capital markets, corporate law, and commodities futures trading. (references)

Human Rights

South Africa

Claims only can be filed for land dispossessions that occurred after the promulgation of the Natives Land Act of 1913, although this does not include dispossessions that occurred in 1913, the year of the Government's most significant land redistribution in favor of whites. (references)

Political Economy

Qatar

Several progressive political issues are being addressed ahead of the expected promulgation of the new Constitution in summer 2002. (references)

COLOMBIA

In addition, since the promulgation of Decree 2439 in November 1994, Ministry of Agriculture approval has been required for import licenses for products which, if imported, would compete with domestic products. (references)

Trade

Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Arabian Standards Organization (SASO) has over 1750 SASO and 1040 Gulf promulgated standards, and is actively pursuing the promulgation of hundreds of new standards currently in various drafting stages of development. (references)

Taiwan

On April 16, 1997, the Legislative Yuan passed these new regulations, which became effective upon presidential promulgation on May 8, 1997. Industries accommodated in the zones have been expanded from manufacturing to include large warehouses, transshipment firms, loading, unloading, and repair services. (references)

Qatar

While draft laws are usually submitted directly to the Advisory Council (Parliament) for review and approval, draft decrees are usually submitted directly to the Emir for promulgation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

përhapje (diffusion, dilatation, dilation, dissemination, distribution, divulge, expansion, extension, leakage, occurrence, permeation, pervasion, prevalence, propagation, semination, spread, spreading, transmission, waft), shpallje (annunciation, asseveration, cry, delation, divulge, enunciation, notification, proclamation, pronouncement, pronouncing, report, ticket), nxjerrje (digging, discharge, drawing, eduction, ejection, elicitation, emission, excretion, extraction, extrusion, heave, inference, leakage, outage, output, recovery, runout, spew, stripping, superannuation). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نشر (apply, be published, bear, braying, bring out, broadcast, circulate, diffusion, dispose, disseminate, distribute, edition, expand, extend, fudge, gazette, give out, hang out, insert in a newspaper, irradiate, issue, overspread, peddle, pervade, popularize, print, proclaim, programming, promulgate, propagation, publicize, publishing, put forth, put out, run, saw, sawing, sawn, scatter, shake out, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, thrust, trephine, unfold, unroll, unwrap), ‏إعلان (ad, advertisement, advertising, announcement, annunciation, bill, bush, declaration, exploitation, gazette, notification, pitch, placard, poster, proclamation, profession, pronunciation, protestation, publicity, sign, spot), ‏إصدار قانون, ‏إذاعة (banewort, broadcast, broadcasting, publication, transmission). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разпространяване (dissemination, propagation, spreading), обявяване (bidding, declaration, manifestation, pronouncement), обнародване (manifestation, publication), оповестяване (announcement, proclamation, publication), провъзгласяване (proclamation), даване гласност. (various references)

Chinese 

颁奖. (various references)

Czech

vyhlášení (annunciation, declaration). (various references)

French

promulgation. (various references)

German

Verkündigung (annunciation, preaching, proclamation, propagation), Verhängung (imposition, proclamation). (various references)

Greek 

διάδοση (convection, diffusion, hearsay, propagation, rumor, rumour, spread, spreading, transpiration), διακήρυξη (declaration, protestation), δημοσίευση (advertisement, publication). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"פצ�" (circulation, dissemination, distribution, propagation, scattering, spread). (various references)

Hungarian

kihirdetés (annunciation, banns, enactment, enunciation, proclamation), közhírré tétel (annunciation, proclamation). (various references)

Italian

promulgazione (enactment). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� '行 (circulation, distribution), 発布 (proclamation), 宣布 (dissemination, proclamation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せ�"ぷ (day on which judgment and haste are avoided, deceased father, dissemination, former husband, late husband, late wife, lucky day but not in morning, previous wife, proclamation), はっぷ (proclamation), は�"�"う (circulation, clan school, counteroffensive, crime, criminal act, daimyo, defiance, distribution, feudal lord, han school, hostility, insubordination, offence, opposition, printing, publishing, rebellion, resistance, sealling). (various references)

Korean 

공포 (Dread, Fear, horror, Promulgating, terror). (various references)

Manx

fockley magh (blurt, declare, proclaim, proclamation, profess, promulgate, pronounce, pronouncement, pronunciation). (various references)

Pig Latin

omulgationpray

Portuguese

propagação (convection, expanse, propagation, spread, transmission), promulgação (passage, proclamation, publication), proclamação (acclamation, announcement, annunciation, blazon, declaration, manifesto, outgiving, proclamation, pronouncement, publication), disseminação (dissemination, propagation, sowing), bando (band, bevy, brood, cohort, covey, flock, gang, group, herd, pack, publication, squad, troop). (various references)

Russian 

распространение (diffusion, dispersal, dispersion, disseminate, dissemination, distribution, occurrence, penetration, pervasion, prevalence, proliferation, propagation, semination, shedding, spread, spreading). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

promulgacija, objava (announcement, intimation, notice, outgiving, press release, proclamation, ukase). (various references)

Spanish

promulgación (enactment). (various references)

Swedish

kungörande, förkunnande. (various references)

Turkish

yayma (circulation, communication, diffusion, dissemination, dissipation, distribution, divulgation, divulgement, divulgence, emission, evolution, laying, propagation, spreading, suffusion), yayınlama (emission, issuance, issue, launching, publication, publishing, view), resmi açıklama yapma, ilan etme (announcement), ilan (advert, advertisement, advertising, announcement, annunciation, enunciation, insert, insertion, notice, proclamation, publication, show card). (various references)

Turkmen 

neюir (issuance). (various references)

Ukrainian

обнародування (divulgation, manifestation), оприлюднення (proclamation), поширення (amplification, circulation, diffusion, dispersal, dispersion, distribution, occurrence, outspread, pervasion, prevalence, prevalency, proliferation, propagation, spread, spreading). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự công bố (annunciation, proclaimation, profession, pronouncement, pronouncing), sự ban bố. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "promulgation": promulgations. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Promulgation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: promulagation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: morulation.

-3 letters: promoting, purgation, trampling, uprooting.

-4 letters: alumroot, autogiro, gumption, maturing, monorail, motional, motoring, moulting, optional, origanum, palomino, paroling, platinum, pliotron, polonium, prolamin, pronotum, protamin, pulmotor, rogation, rumpling, tramping, trigonal, tromping, troopial, trooping, troupial, trouping, trumping, unipolar, uprating, uprootal.

-5 letters: amorino, amotion, antilog, atropin, autoing, galipot, glamour, gourami, graplin, gripman, gunroom, implant, ingroup, lamping.

+1 letter: promulgations.