Divulge vs Disseminate - What's the difference?
divulge | disseminate |
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 sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, and errors for growth and propagation, such as seed
To become scattered.
As verbs the difference between divulge and disseminate
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 disseminate is to sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, and errors for growth and propagation, such as seed.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)disseminate
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(disseminat)- The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world.