vulgation means the act of spreading or promulgating among the common people. It carries an Arena rating of 1367, earned across 7 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, vulgation ranks #2,307 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #2,512 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #4,637 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #5,948 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words.
Why “vulgation” is a great word
The act of making something common knowledge or promulgating it among the general populace. From Latin *vulgātiō*, from *vulgō* (“to publish, make common”). Unlike “publication,” a neutral term for making information public, or “divulgation,” which implies the unveiling of a secret, vulgation is the specific, sometimes graceless, work of broadcasting an idea into the common air. It is the town crier’s hoarse voice cutting through the morning, the cheap paper of a pamphlet passing through a thousand hands, the simplifying of a complex truth until it fits on a placard—the quiet victory of the shared over the singular, and the necessary transformation that occurs when knowledge leaves the few and becomes the property of the many.
Etymology
From Latin vulgātiō, from vulgō (“publish”).
noun
- The act of spreading or promulgating among the common people.
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