DIVULGE

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret. Divulge not such a love as mine. Cowper.

2.
v.

To indicate publicly; to proclaim. [R.] God . . . marks The just man, and divulges him through heaven. Milton.

3.
v.

To impart; to communicate. Which would not be To them [animals] made common and divulged. Milton.

4.
v.

To become publicly known. [R.] "To keep it from divulging." Shak.


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