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noun

Publication n.

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."

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."

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.

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"Publication" Quotes from Famous Books

... public such matters; for honest men are not very particularly interested to know how much gold a ship is going to sail with; but such stories must be a frightful temptation to rogues, and in these days, when roguery has become almost a science, there is no knowing what the publication of ...

— With Airship and Submarine - A Tale of Adventure • Harry Collingwood

... first place," said the Master, "the English marriage-certificate by a clergyman of that day in London, after publication of the banns, with a reference to the register of the parish church where the marriage is recorded. Then, a certified genealogy of the family in New England, where such matters can be ascertained from ...

— The Ancestral Footstep (fragment) - Outlines of an English Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... unto thyself and men will speak good of thee," is a maxim as old as King David's time, and just as true now as it was then. Hardy had found it so since the publication of the class list. Within a few days of that event it was known that his was a very good first. His college tutor had made his own inquiries, and repeated on several occasions in a confidential way the statement that, "with the exception of a want of polish in his Latin and Greek verses, ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... result followed the publication of this remarkable paper save that it probably defeated the renomination of Mr. Davis for Congress. The Democrats were of course hostile to it in spirit and in letter, and the leading Republicans saw in it the seeds of a controversy between the President and Congress which might ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... a hood, which failed to hide his beard. Some boys, seeing his beard, lifted up the skirts of his dress, which exposed his heavy boots. Immediately the mob set upon him, and the atrocities they perpetrated are so revolting that they are unfit for publication. They finally killed him and threw his body into the river. His wife and her companion ran up Madison Street, and escaped across the Grand Street ...

— The Great Riots of New York 1712 to 1873 • J.T. Headley

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