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Definition of Propaganda

1. Noun. Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause.

Definition of Propaganda

1. n. A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions.

Definition of Propaganda

1. Noun. A concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people. ¹

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Definition of Propaganda

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Propaganda

Literary usage of Propaganda

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot by Chicago Commission on Race Relations (1922)
"propaganda Both whites and Negroes have recognized the value of propaganda as an instrument of opinion-making. Both employ it, sometimes openly, ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Tbe procedure in such cases is as simple as it is practical: propaganda having been ... One of the customs of propaganda, worthy of special mention, ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The procedure in such cases is as simple as it is practical: propaganda having been ... One of the customs of propaganda, worthy of special mention, ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The procedure in such cases is as simple as it is practical: propaganda having been ... One of the customs of propaganda, worthy of special mention, ..."

5. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot by Illinois Chicago Commission on Race Relations (1922)
"propaganda Both whites and Negroes have recognized the value of propaganda as an instrument of opinion-making. ..."

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The jurisdiction of the propaganda extends over the English colleges of Lisbon and Valladolid, the Irish college of Paris, and the American of Louvain. ..."

7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1915)
"A well-organised and widely-extended propaganda on behalf of Germany—a propaganda ... The propaganda is still going on. Neither the division of it that is ..."

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