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Publicity

noun

A message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution. Synonyms: packaging, promotion, promotional material.

The quality of being open to public view.

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"Publicity" Quotes from Famous Books

... shown himself otherwise than diligent in his duty. The letter concluded with a report of general news, the chief item being the announcement of the death of the King of France, and the writers expressed a wish that the same publicity might be given to their letter as was given to the letter received from the Mayor ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe

... protect her, even if it would, from the publicity in which trials are conducted? You might touch the magistrates' hearts; but there are fifty journalists who, since this crime, have been cutting their pens and getting their paper ready. Do you think that, to please us, they would suppress the scandalous ...

— The Mystery of Orcival • Emile Gaboriau

... surprised that Mr. Burdovsky should have—however, this is what I have to say. Since you had already given the matter publicity, why did you object just now, when I began to speak of ...

— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... survey having been as satisfactory as could have been expected, his excellency is pleased to give publicity to Mr. Oxley's own clear and circumstantial report on this valuable acquisition; and his excellency desires to express his full and entire approbation of Mr. Oxley's intelligent, zealous, and indefatigable exertions on this arduous occasion, which evince an earnest and well directed desire ...

— Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales • John Oxley

... blacken the fair escutcheon we are so jealously anxious to protect, I dread the consequences. Only horror of a notorious scandal prevented me long ago from applying for a divorce, which could very easily have been obtained, but we shrink from the publicity, and moreover the case does not seem to demand compliance with even the ordinary forms of law. Believing that you, my dear sir, would not avow yourself particeps criminis in so unjust and vile a crusade against the peace and honour of my family were you acquainted with the facts, I have ...

— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

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