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promulgate (verb)

By Mark Morgan Ford · · 1 min read
To promulgate (PRAH-mul-gate) is to formally proclaim or put into action. As used by Karen Armstrong: “The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule… was Confucius 500 years before Christ.”
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