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Promulgator

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prom·ul·gate  (prml-gt, pr-mlgt)
tr.v. prom·ul·gat·ed, prom·ul·gat·ing, prom·ul·gates
1. To make known (a decree, for example) by public declaration; announce officially. See Synonyms at announce.
2. To put (a law) into effect by formal public announcement.
[Latin prmulgre, prmulgt-.]
promul·gation (prml-gshn, prml-) n.
promul·gator n.
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Noun1.promulgator - (law) one who promulgates laws (announces a law as a way of putting it into execution)
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
lawgiver, lawmaker - a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws


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There are not wanting, it is true, some promulgators of paradoxes who maintain that there is no necessary connection between geometrical and moral Irregularity.
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