publishment

[puhb-lish-muhnt]

noun

Archaic.

1. publication.

Word History and Origins

Origin of publishment¹

First recorded in 1485–95; publish + -ment

Example Sentences

Maryland ended capital publishment in 2013 and she is now urging Pennsylvania to do the same.

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Bishop Butler's theory that our present life is a state of trial and probation, is met by the difficulty, that while he assumes the justice and benevolence of God as moral governor, he has the fact, that many exist with organisations and capacities so originally different, that it is manifestly most unfair to put one and the same reward, or one and this same publishment for all.

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I had thought of Publishment next Thursday.

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It is therefore with an expression of regret that the Riksdag has learned from the publishment of the Protocol drawn up in Joint Swedish and Norwegian Cabinet Council on the 25th of April last, that negotiations founded on the basis indicated in the above-mentioned declaration of the Crown-Prince Regent cannot now be opened with any chance of success.

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The above sum to be safely invested and three fourths of the annual interest thereof to be paid to the lecturer for his services and the remaining fourth to be expended in the publishment and gratuitous distribution of the lecture, a copy of which is always to be furnished by the lecturer for such purpose.

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