Divulge vs Convey - What's the difference?
divulge | convey | Related terms |
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. - .
To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
* God . . . marks The just man, and divulges him through heaven. -- .
To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
* Shakespeare
To communicate; to make known; to portray.
* John Locke
(legal) To transfer legal rights (to).
* Spenser
(obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
As verbs the difference between divulge and convey
is that divulge is 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 while convey is to transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.divulge
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(divulg)Synonyms
* bewray, bring out, uncover, disclose, discover, expose, give away, impart, let on, let out, revealDerived terms
* divulgation (Webster 1913)convey
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(en verb)- Convey me to my bed, then to my grave.
- Air conveys''' sound; words '''convey ideas.
- to convey''' an impression; to '''convey information
- Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts.
- He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.
- The Earl of Desmond secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust.
- I will convey the business as I shall find means.
