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Divulge vs Lisp - What's the difference?

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Divulge is a related term of lisp.


As a verb 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.

As a proper noun lisp is

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divulge

English

Verb

(divulg)
  • 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. -- .
  • Synonyms

    * bewray, bring out, uncover, disclose, discover, expose, give away, impart, let on, let out, reveal

    Derived terms

    * divulgation (Webster 1913)

    lisp

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The habit or an act of lisping.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pronounce the sibilant letter ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ () — a defect common amongst children.
  • To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, / I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
  • To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
  • * Drayton
  • Lest when my lisping , guilty tongue should halt.
  • To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
  • * Tyndale
  • to speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lisp words unto them according as the babes and children of that age might sound them again
  • To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
  • to lisp treason

    See also

    * brogue * drawl * lilt * twang

    Anagrams

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