Propaganda
[prɒpə'gændə] or ['prɑpə'gændə]
Definition
(noun.) information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause.
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Definition
(n.) A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions.
(n.) The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623-1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world.
(n.) Hence, any organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles.
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Examples
- She dates it from the time when Nietzsche, under the guise of Wagnerian propaganda, began to expound himself. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- An incident in the international peace propaganda illuminates this point. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In actual life, yes, in the moil and toil of propaganda, movements, causes and agitations the statesman-inventor and the political psychologist find the raw material for their work. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This philosophy, so useful in propaganda, is becoming a burden in action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Back in the '80's he was working with the Webbs, Bernard Shaw, Sidney Olivier, Annie Besant and others in socialist propaganda. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And also Napoleon interested himself in Christian propaganda. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A very novel literary feature of the work was the issuance of a bulletin devoted entirely to the Edison lighting propaganda. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thus you hear from Southerners that unless socialism gives up its demand for racial equality, the propaganda cannot go forward. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But the propagandists do it nevertheless, and their propaganda thrives upon it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Relevant it is in that it suggests the importance of style, of propaganda, the popularization of ideas. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The reformer bound up in his special propaganda will, of course, object that to get something done is worth more than any amount of talk about new ways of looking at political problems. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A propaganda like the single-tax will undoubtedly find increasing support among business men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And he set himself to a propaganda of the views that New Lanark had justified. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had been nurtured upon imperialist propaganda. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As the Christian propaganda of Charlemagne swept towards the shores of the North and Baltic seas, the pagans were driven to the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is from the festering humiliations of peoples that arrogant religious propagandas spring. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Both sustained almost world-wide propagandas of idea and inspiration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The feverish state of affairs in the Balkans was largely the outcome of the intrigues and propagandas sustained by the German and Slav schemes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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