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.).
were promulgating
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past progressiveof promulgate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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From Berlin to Buenos Aires, eminent dantisti were promulgating treatises and tributes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Richard McNemar and John Thompson, of Washington Presbytery, were promulgating erroneous doctrines and that their Presbytery had refused to consider the petition implicating their orthodoxy.
From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt
