Propagandum

Quick meaning: Propagandum is a noun meaning An idea or topic spread with the goal of convincing or influencing large numbers of people, regardless of its actual validity.

Meaning

An idea or topic spread with the goal of convincing or influencing large numbers of people, regardless of its actual validity.

More Meanings

1. A campaign to spread such an idea or topic.

Example Sentences

In State schools religion is permitted and sometimes welcomed, but not as a propagandum. It is a guest on good behavior. It must be polite, careful, conservative. Cæsar dictates how aggressive it may be.

Undoubtedly the primitive state of the psychology of abnormal mental states at the time of the miraculous discovery and transcription of the ‘golden plates’ of the book of Mormon had something to do with the ease with which such a propagandum was disseminated.

The Vigor of democratic polity is in democratic religion. So long as the American people would make their citizenship a privilege as against the rest of the world, they will be ridden over roughshod by domestic monopolies. For American citizenship is not a privilege; it is a propagandum.

From this point of view, as a propagandum of political freedom, Freemasonry is worthy of a profound study, and also entitled to the gratitude and reverence of all good and benevolent men. It has contributed largely to the social improvement of our race, and to the establishment of civil liberty.

Word Forms

• propaganda

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include propagandization, propagandism, agitprop, propagation, infoganda, agit-prop.

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