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Webster 1913 Edition
Publication
1.
The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation;
as, the
publication
of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication
of the gospel; the publication
of statutes or edicts.2.
The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution.
The
publication
of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others. Swift.
3.
That which is published or made known; especially, any book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public notice;
as, a daily or monthly
. publication
4.
An act done in public.
[R. & Obs.]
His jealousy . . . attends the business, the recreations, the
publications
, and retirements of every man. Jer. Taylor.
Publication of a libel
(Law)
, such an exhibition of a libel as brings it to the notice of at least one person other than the person libeled.
– Publication of a will
(Law)
, the delivery of a will, as his own, by a testator to witnesses who attest it.
Webster 1828 Edition
Publication
PUBLICA'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of publishing or offering to public notice, notification to a people at large, either by words, writing or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as the publication of the law at mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.2.
The act of offering a book or writing to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution. The author consented to the publication of his manuscripts.3.
A work printed and published; any pamphlet or book offered for sale or to public notice; as a new publication; a monthly publication.Definition 2024
publication
publication
English
Noun
publication (countable and uncountable, plural publications)
- The act of publishing printed or other matter
- Jonathan Swift
- The publication of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others.
- Jonathan Swift
- An issue of printed or other matter, offered for sale or distribution
- The communication of information to the general public etc.
- Jeremy Taylor
- His jealousy […] attends the business, the recreations, the publications, and retirements of every man.
- Jeremy Taylor
Translations
act of publishing
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an issue of printed or other matter
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communication of information
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