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/ədvˈərtəzmənt/ /ˌædvərtˈaɪzmənt/ Listen

noun

Advertisement n.

The act of informing or notifying; notification. (Archaic) "An advertisement of danger."

Admonition; advice; warning. (Obs.) "Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement."

A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisements.

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Etymology of 'Advertisement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the negro was a man and therefore a brother"? You did not find it out, in fact, until the eighteenth century—the century of Voltaire and Thomas Paine—the century in which Freethought had spread so much, even in England, that Bishop Butler in the Advertisement to his Analogy, dated May, 1736, could say that "many persons" regarded Christianity as proved to be "fictitious" to "all people of discernment," and thought that "nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

... of this sign and we're going to stay here," the kid said. "If anybody paid you money for letting the sign be here, that includes us. We're an advertisement of Brown's Hats, that's what we are. We're on top. It says so. If a thing belongs to a thing, it belongs to that thing and not the land that thing is on, doesn't it? If you rent out a place to put a thing then the thing that's on that thing isn't trespassing on the land ...

— Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... The advertisement of a new rifle gallery in Dublin runs as follows:—"Learn to shoot at the Dublin Rifle School. The object is to teach every man to shoot irrespective of political views." The old order changeth. Formerly, no doubt, the rifles were sighted ...

— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 2, 1914 • Various

... second edition (1749) of Clarissa, probably because he relished neither its implication that he was following French precedents nor its suggestion that his work was one "of mere Amusement." In the "Advertisement" in the first volume of the second edition he insisted that Clarissa was "not to be considered as a mere Amusement, as a light Novel, or transitory Romance; but as a History of LIFE and MANNERS ... intended to inculcate the HIGHEST and most IMPORTANT ...

— Prefaces to Fiction • Various

... passengerless, into Cunnamulla, and, as he turned into the yard of the local "Royal," he saw Mac's tilted four-wheeler (which he called his "van") drawn up opposite by the kerbing round the post office. Mac always chose a central position—with a vague idea of advertisement perhaps. But the nearness to the P.O. reminded Harry of the mail contracts, and he knew that Mac had taken up a passenger or two and some parcels in front of him (Harry) on the trip in. And something told Harry that Mac was asleep inside his van. It was a windy night, with signs of rain, ...

— The Rising of the Court • Henry Lawson

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