Sekirov Dictionary

pamphlet

/ˈpæmflɪt/

verb 4
noun 3
forms 5

verb4

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To distribute pamphlets (to someone or some place).
- We are pamphleted on the subject until we are weary. — 1886
•
To distribute pamphlets.
- Five Swarthmore students, including Wittman, were arrested and fined thirty-four dollars each for pamphleting in February. — 2007
•
(no longer used) To write about (someone or something) in a pamphlet; to issue (some material) in the form of a pamphlet.
- You are not exhibiting yourselves here to become the heroes of a newspaper; and the conversation that is about to take place between us, is not intended to be pamphleted into the world. — 1801
(no longer used, rare) To write or produce pamphlets.

noun3

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A small, brief printed work, consisting either of a folded sheet of paper, or several sheets bound together into a booklet with only a paper cover, formerly containing literary compositions, newsletters, and newspapers, but now chiefly informational matter.
- "Haven't you any kind of a history of the place? I think there was one written about 1840: a book or pamphlet about its first settlement," he presently said from the farther end of the room. — 1917
•
Such a work containing political material or discussing matters of controversy.
- So far is it from the kenne of these wretched projectors of ours that bescraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church. — 1642
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(no longer used) A brief handwritten work.
- And heere I cast vnto my purpoos / Out of Frenssh a tale to translate, / Which in a paunflet I radde & sauh but late. — 1934

forms

pamphleted · pamphletted · pamphleting · pamphletting · pamphlets

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