promulgate
verb (used with object)
to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
had promulgated
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past perfectof promulgate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The director for decades, J. Edgar Hoover, had promulgated enormous abuses of the bureau.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
The complaint notes that in response to skyrocketing COVID-19 infections inside correctional facilities, King County Executive Dow Constantine had promulgated a jail policy that prohibited booking nonviolent offenders.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
Just five months before this snowy athletic jamboree, the Reichstag had promulgated the anti-Jewish Nuremberg race laws.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2021
In 2019, the Punjab provincial government had promulgated a law to ban employment of children below 15 years of age as domestic servants.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2020
With this view, he had promulgated a new law of succession, widely celebrated throughout Europe under the name of the Pragmatic Sanction.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
