promulgation

/ˌprɑməlˈgeɪʃən/

Other forms: promulgations

Use the word promulgation when you're talking about an official announcement, like a newspaper story announcing a town's new regulations on trash and recycling services.

A public notice or announcement can be called a promulgation, though it's used more often to describe a government's declaration — often in the newspaper or on the radio — of new laws. If you want to sound especially formal or fancy, you can call your book club's notification of a venue change a promulgation. It comes from the Latin promulgare, "make publicly known," itself a combination of pro, "out," and mulgere, "to cause to come forth," or literally, "to milk."

Definitions of promulgation

1. noun

   a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen
   “the promulgation was written in English”

   synonyms: announcement

   examples:

   Annunciation

   (Christianity) the announcement to the Virgin Mary by the angel Gabriel of the incarnation of Christ

   types:

   advisory

   an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat

   banns

   a public announcement of a proposed marriage

   handout, press release, release

   an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation

   notice

   an announcement containing information about an event

   program, programme

   an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event

   wanted notice, wanted poster

   a public announcement by a law enforcement agency that they desire to question or arrest some person

   caveat

   (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing

   necrology, obit, obituary

   a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography

   playbill

   a theatrical program

   racecard

   a program for a race meeting; lists the races and the names of the horses

   International Wanted Notice, Red Notice

   an Interpol notice describing a wanted person and asking that he or she be arrested with a view to extradition; a wanted notice that is issued by Interpol at the request of an Interpol member country and distributed to all member countries

   type of:

   statement

   a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
2. noun

   the official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the law or ordinance is put into effect
   type of:

   announcement, annunciation, declaration, proclamation

   a formal public statement
3. noun

   the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice
   “his promulgation of the policy proved to be premature”

   synonyms: proclamation

   type of:

   act, deed, human action, human activity

   something that people do or cause to happen