promulgator
Example Sentences
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These misdeeds were different from the ones Hersey was focussed on in “The Legend on the License,” but they take away some of the burnish from his image as the promulgator of sacred rules.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
Even more disturbing was the untimely demise of John H Knowles, director of the Rockefeller Foundation and promulgator of the “doctrine of personal responsibility” for one’s health.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2018
That the age of universal popularity of the nylon-haired, doe-eyed, plastic embodiment of body fascism, that icon of mindless consumption and ravening materialism, promulgator of female passivity and aggravator of vanity is over at last?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2013
Archibald Henderson, head of the University of North Carolina's mathematics department, spoke of "America's debt of lasting gratitude to the great Raleigh, promulgator of the English colonization movement."
From Time Magazine Archive
Later the term ~Jacobin~ was applied to any promulgator of extreme revolutionary or radical opinions.
From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by William Savage Johnson
