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DIVULGEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does divulgement mean? 

DIVULGEMENT (noun)
  The noun DIVULGEMENT has 1 sense:

1. the act of disclosing something that was secret or privateplay

  Familiarity information: DIVULGEMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DIVULGEMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of disclosing something that was secret or private

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

divulgement; divulgence

Hypernyms ("divulgement" is a kind of...):

disclosure; revealing; revelation (the speech act of making something evident)

Derivation:

divulge (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)


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