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pamphletted

pamphletted is the simple past and past participle of pamphlet.

Meaning of pamphlet

Verb

pamphlet (third-person singular simple present pamphlets, present participle pamphleting or pamphletting, simple past and past participle pamphleted or pamphletted)

  1. (transitive) To distribute pamphlets (to someone or some place).
    • Is not This a Seaſonable and Wholeſome Doctrine, d'ye think, to publiſh to the Multitude at this time of day, when they are Preacht and Pamphletted into Tinder already; And the Leaſt ſpark hazzards the Putting of 'em All in a flame?1682 July 15 (Gregorian calendar), Roger L’Estrange, The Observator, number 165, London: […] Joanna Brome […], →OCLC, page [2], column 1
  2. (archaic, transitive) To write about (someone or something) in a pamphlet; to issue (some material) in the form of a pamphlet.
    • How many Honourable, and Loyall Gentlemen; Nay the Flower of the Nobility, have been Pamphleted up and down the Nation like ſo many Shrewing-Cocks, for every Cur to lift up his Leg and Piſs againſt; as the Betrayers of the Liberties of the Nation, when, Effectually, they were next under God...1683 October 27 (Gregorian calendar), Roger L’Estrange, The Observator, number 422, London: […] Joanna Brome […], →OCLC, page [2], column 1
  3. (intransitive) To distribute pamphlets.
    • Five Swarthmore students, including Wittman, were arrested and fined thirty-four dollars each for pamphleting in February.2007, Wesley C. Hogan, “SNCC Teaches SDS How to Act”, in Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America, [U.S.A.]: ReadHowYouWant.com, published 2011, →ISBN, page 249
  4. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To write or produce pamphlets.
    • […] Had you not beene ſo forvvard in the republiſhing of it, you ſhold haue had certayne Epiſtles to Orators and Poets, to inſert to the later end; As, namely, […] to the Ghoſt of Robert Greene, telling him, vvhat a coyle [tumult] there is vvith pamphleting on him after his death.1592, Thomas Nash[e], “A Priuate Epistle of the Author to the Printer”, in Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC

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Questions about pamphletted

What is pamphletted the simple past and past participle of?
Pamphletted is the simple past and past participle of pamphlet.

Words near pamphletted in the dictionary

  1. pamphletizes
  2. pamphletizing
  3. pamphletry
  4. pamphlets
  5. pamphletsful
  6. pamphletted
  7. pamphletting
  8. pamphletwise
  9. Pamphylia
  10. Pamphylian
  11. Pamphylians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pamphletted (page history and authors); pamphlet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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